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One of the authors of a recently published and highly acclaimed book on democracy in India ‘To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism’ says that India is “an elective despotism” and Narendra Modi is a “despot”. However, Debashish Roy Chowdhury adds that is also true of several Chief Ministers amongst whom he named Mamata Banerjee and K. Chandrashekar Rao. Asked how he would respond to the question “If Modi is a despot how do you explain the fact you are able to say this in a television studio and still walk out and remain free?”, this was Debashish Roy Chowdhury’s reply: “So I should be thankful that I can walk out and remain free?” adding if his freedom is not established on the basis of his rights but on the goodwill and mercy of Narendra Modi then that proves his point.
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