(This note has been prepared by Shiwangee Chandrakar and Indra Kumar Lahoti. They are both Managing Editors of the PCLS blog.)
On 24 August 2020, the Progressive Constitutional Law Society had a reading session on “Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party-state Fusion in India”, written by Professor Taruanabh Khaitan. PANEL DISCUSSION 1 The paper touches upon the gradual democratic deconsolidation in the country which has been relatively more visible in recent years. Professor Khaitan maps the steps taken by Bhartiya Janta Party that have slowly and then steadily threatened Indian democracy. The first term of the BJP led government between 2014 and 2019 was when the major groundwork for incrementally damaging the accountability-seeking mechanisms was laid down. It is significant to note that these attacks on constitutionalism by BJP were not as direct as the ones during the emergency period, which is to say that the said assaults on democracy were carried out with subtlety and care.
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