| Resignation of PA in PMO, Professors from AU not augur well for Modi Govt: Prof Soz | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 22: Alleging that resignation of Principal Advisor (PA) in the Prime Minister Office (PMO) and Professors from Ashoka University (AU) does not augur well for the Narendra Modi government at the centre, former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Prof Saifuddin Soz on Monday said the common assessment, the world over, is that India is growing fast into a full-fledged Elected Autocratic Regime. “It is not for nothing that Freedom House (US Based Watchdog on Democracy) has categorically stated that India has fallen from “Free to Less Free Status” in the world. Earlier, the Henley Passport Index 2020 Report ranked India at 84th position along with Senegal. This does not augur well for the Modi Government, Prof Soz said in a statement here Monday afternoon. He said the resignations of Principal Advisor in the PMO S K Sinha, Noted Columnist and Political Commentator and Senior Professor Ashoka University Pratap Bhanu Mehta and world famous Economist Professor Ashoka University Arvind Subramanian in recent days, should be seen in this very context. “Dr Subramanian said in a statement that, his support of politics that tries to honour constitutional values of freedom and equal respect to all citizens, was seen as a risk to the system in which I worked. So, I resigned,” statement said. Prof Soz said these resignations have shown the Modi Government in poor light and the world has become largely aware that dissent is not acceptable in India, any more. He alleged that the greatest ailment of India’s polity today is that India no longer functions as a democracy and the Centre of the Command is just one person and all the public institutions have the direction that these have to go by the Command.
Prof Soz further alleged that the common assessment, the world over, is that India is growing fast into a full-fledged Elected Autocratic Regime.
“I feel sad about these developments. More worrisome aspect of today’s India is that the graph is falling, by the day”, he said. |
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