Indias raucous democracy is becoming more subdued

June 23, 2017 11:40

"It is not only the media that are largely tame. Agencies such as India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate of the finance ministry, the tax authorities and even local police forces are often accused of doing the government's bidding. Since the upstart Aam Aadmi Party won control of the local assembly in Delhi, India's capital, from the BJP in 2015, its leaders have been hit by a barrage of investigations. Their impressive reforms to health and education have won widespread praise, but Delhi's government has trouble filling administrative posts because career bureaucrats refuse its vacancies for fear of harassment."

India under the Modi government in the Economist. Do read

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