[sound1]

How do you explain the fact that the current central government got more parliamentary seats and vote share than the previous election? I think we have quite a healthy democracy. There are always voices that pick only the rough edges but democracy is a tool for continuous improvement, whether the current government supports it or not (data says it does, at least for now).

[throwaway384629]

"The Nazi Party’s meteoric rise to power began in 1930, when it attained 107 seats in Germany’s parliament, the Reichstag. In July 1932, the Nazi Party became the largest political party in the Reichstag with 230 representatives"

Sounds very similar, but above is from Holocaust encyclopedia. [1]

[1] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-r...

[sound1]

What are you trying to say? Any democracy which voted a majority government into power consecutively is destined to be like Nazi party?

[throwaway384629]

Yes, history has shown that it can go that way. We all have to stay alert and raise an alarm when a democratically elected government starts trying to manipulate four pillars of Democracy: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Press.

[sound1]

Do you disagree if I say that the United States is one of the best functioning democracies (may not be perfect )? They have elected the same president consecutively. There may be many others as well, and nobody became Nazi.

[throwaway384629]

I agree with you that United States is much better functioning democracy. I think this is because they have much better checks & balances than India. Their legal, press and judiciary structure is also different than India.

Just one example here:

President Obama has done 163 press conferences in 8 years, and all the data is public for everyone to see. [1]

While PM Modi in the same amount of time did 1 (?) press conference. And has never answered any question even in that one. There is no data available on press conferences as a reply to RTI. [2] [3] [4]

Press is one important pillar of democracy. Where is democracy if you are not answering to people and only playing one sided scripted monologue.

[1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/india-election-modi/at-his-f...

[3] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/rti-pmo-pm-narendra-mo...

[4] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/why-hasnt-pm-mod...

[sound1]

I don't get it, are you trying to measure the performance of the current indian government by the number of press conferences held? Governments operate in completely different ways. What you read in papers is from the political parties.