India 'largest flailing democracy', says Hamid Ansari, talks of 'growing authoritarianism' globally

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And added that the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance has noted recently that over the past six years, the number of countries moving towards authoritarianism more than doubled than the number of those moving towards democracy, said Ansari...

Kumar, who had served as the Union minister of Law and Justice in the Manmohan Singh government between 2012 and 2013, on his part made a collective jibe at the Opposition...

It is wrong, for example, for the Opposition to find small pick holes here and there in foreign policies or defense-related things, said Kumar, adding, It was wrong for the Opposition to condemn the government security at the time of pandemic...

Hitting out at the opposition parties, Kumar, a former additional solicitor general of India, said, the point is you cant beat some people on their turf..

In his Kumar also writes that Despite a proclaimed commitment to the rule of law, the countrys legal processes have failed justice in several ways, prompting the highest court to lament the morality of justice at the hands of law...

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