India's Degrading Democracy and Freedom
Recently, the Freedom House US based organisation has decreased the status of India from "free country" to "partly free". And also the rank of India has been slipped to 53rd position in the latest democracy index by Economic Intelligence Unit. Also V-DEM institute regarded India as "electoral autocracy". All these rankings and designations are not only given to India although more than 150 countries are examined and each and every country got its rank and designations according to their parameters and scales. WHY INDIA'S STATUS DOWNGRADED: Some of the reasons are enlisted here- 1. Century's longest and multiple times of internet shutdown across Indian states. Due to this some of the fundamental rights were violated by the government. In 2018, India shut internet 134 times, in 2019 - 106 times and in 2020 - 129 times. EXAMPLES: Some bigger events/shutdown cases are: (a) In 2019, after repealing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the interne