India’s Political Prisoners: How Modi Cracks Down on Dissent
In the ten years Narenda Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has held power, Modi has presided over an evisceration of democratic rights in India. He has institutionalized emergency laws within the Constitution, enabling the government to “unilaterally designate anyone as a terrorist without any proof.” Suchitra Vijayan, author of How Long Can the […]
In the ten years Narenda Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has held power, Modi has presided over an evisceration of democratic rights in India. He has institutionalized emergency laws within the Constitution, enabling the government to “unilaterally designate anyone as a terrorist without any proof.” Suchitra Vijayan, author of How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners, explains that while Modi’s crackdown on dissent has had a “chilling effect,” that “the defiance and the resistance hasn’t gone away.”
