"They spread canards about our people, our democracy and our institutions. India does not become an electoral autocracy if the Yuvraj cannot automatically get power. Just because he has to fight elections and the people of India are not impressed by him doesn't make India less democratic.
"The institutions are those that give body and strength to our democracy, whether it's parliament, whether it's an independent election commission, whether it's the information commission or the Reserve Bank of India. All of these institutions have found their independence vitiated," Tharoor
"We are not debating just a documentary or a speech that somebody gave in a European city or a newspaper edits somewhere -- we are debating, actually politics, which is being conducted ostensibly as media -- there is a phrase 'war by other means' this is politics by another means." the EA
Brussels [Belgium], September 16 (ANI): Slamming the Hungarian government for its "deliberate and systemic efforts" to undermine democratic values, European Parliament said that the country can no longer be a "full democracy", but is rather an "electoral autocracy," as per a press release of