{"id":56154,"date":"2023-06-22T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/india-democracy-index-flawed-preserve-reputation-narendra-modi"},"modified":"2023-06-22T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:23:25","slug":"india-secretly-works-to-preserve-reputation-after-flawed-democracy-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56154","title":{"rendered":"India secretly works to preserve reputation after \u2018flawed democracy\u2019 rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Democracy Index downgrades country amid backsliding under nationalist rule of Narendra Modi<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has been secretly working to keep its reputation as the \u201cworld\u2019s largest democracy\u201d alive after being called out by researchers for serious democratic backsliding under the nationalist rule of Narendra Modi, according to internal reports seen by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Despite publicly dismissing several global rankings that suggest the country is on a dangerous downward trajectory, officials from government ministries have been quietly assigned to monitor India\u2019s performance, minutes from meetings show.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/22\/india-democracy-index-flawed-preserve-reputation-narendra-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Democracy Index downgrades country amid backsliding under nationalist rule of Narendra ModiThe Indian government has been secretly working to keep its reputation as the \u201cworld\u2019s largest democracy\u201d alive after being called out by researchers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56168,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions\/56168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}