Is India a weaker democracy than it was a year ago?

India has dropped ten spots to the 51st spot in The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Democracy Index discharged on Wednesday, mainly because of “an erosion of civil liberties in the country”.

BY KASHISH SINGLA | 2 Mins Read

India has dropped ten spots to the 51st spot in The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2019 Democracy Index discharged on Wednesday, mainly because of “an erosion of civil liberties in the country”.

WHAT IS DEMOCRACY INDEX? 

The Democracy Index is a record aggregated by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a UK-based organization. It means to quantify the condition of vote based system in 167 nations, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN part states.

PARAMETERS OF DEMOCRACY INDEX

The Democracy Index positions nations dependent on five parameters: discretionary procedure and pluralism, the working of government, political interest, political culture, and common freedoms.

INDIA DEMOCRACY INDEX IN LAST 13 YEARS 

India's democracy index is lowest as compared to last 13 years. While Thailand's score improved in 2019. India's score in 2019 was its most noticeably terrible positioning since the origin of the Democracy Index in 2006

HERE ARE THE REASONS FOR RELAPSE IN INDIA 

Specifying the disintegration of common freedoms, the report said that the administration annulled Article 370 and canceled Article 35A, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its special  status. Jammu and Kashmir is currently isolated into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. government likewise limited web access in the state." The Narendra Modi government forced the web boycott in Jammu and Kashmir in August a year ago, and just in part re-established broadband and 2G web this month. A few political pioneers, including Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, were kept in front of the administration's declaration on the annulment of Article 370. They are yet to be discharged.

The new citizenship law has enraged the huge Muslim populace, fed mutual pressures and created enormous fights in significant urban communities," the research group said. Fights have ejected the nation over against the oppressive Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). 

The new citizenship law looks to allow citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist, Jain and Christian migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. At the point when joined with the National Register of Citizens, there are worries that it might prompt discrimination against muslims .

Based on their total score, the countries are classified as one of four types of regime: "full democracy" (scores greater than 8); flawed democracy — scores greater than 6 and less than or equal to 8; hybrid regime — scores greater than 4 and less than or equal to 6; authoritarian regime — scores less than or equal to 4".

India was included in the "flawed democracy" category.