Posted on Wed 17 Mar 2021, 7:30am

India which prides itself as the world’s largest democracy, has had its status downgraded to a “partially free democracy”.

It follows the release of annual reports from Freedom House, the Democracy Index, and V-Dem which all highlight the deterioration of political and civil liberties in India

One group even labelled the country as an an ‘electoral autocracy’.

Ravi Nair is the Executive Director of the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, he spoke with ABC NewsRadio’s Victor Petrovic.