{"id":183617,"date":"2025-09-15T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=183617"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:07:48","slug":"international-day-of-democracy-india-celebrates-slogan-but-violates-its-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/15\/international-day-of-democracy-india-celebrates-slogan-but-violates-its-spirit.html","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Democracy: India celebrates slogan but violates its spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-183618 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/india-democ-431x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/india-democ-431x470.jpg 431w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/india-democ-202x220.jpg 202w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/india-democ-768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/india-democ.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/>#ShamDemocracy #AuthoritarianIndia<br \/>\nIslamabad: International Day of Democracy reminds the world that India celebrates the slogan but violates its spirit.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, democracy is about inclusion, but Modi\u2019s India excludes, marginalizes, and punishes all who resist Hindutva rule<\/p>\n<p>India boasts of democracy, but under Modi dissenters, journalists, activists and students are jailed under draconian laws.<\/p>\n<p>India calls itself the world\u2019s largest democracy, but in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) it rules through force, fear, and fascism.<\/p>\n<p>Detaining elected leaders like Meraj Malik under draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) exposes India\u2019s fake democratic facade and by denying Kashmiris their right to self-determination, India has exposed its sham democracy.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s treatment of Kashmiris and minorities proves its democracy exists only on paper as thousands jailed, protests crushed, and voices silenced \u2014 IIOJK is proof of India\u2019s fake democracy.<\/p>\n<p>From bulldozing Muslim homes to silencing Dalit and Sikh voices, Modi\u2019s democracy thrives on oppression and when minorities live in fear, democracy becomes majoritarian tyranny \u2014 exactly what Modi\u2019s India has become.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition leaders hounded by the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) \u2014 this is dictatorship in the garb of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Press gagged, activists branded as \u201canti-India,\u201d judiciary reduced to a rubber stamp \u2014 this is Modi\u2019s new India<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s democracy is nothing but authoritarianism dressed in ballots and the Modi\u2019s India celebrates ballots but buries justice, equality, &amp; freedom<\/p>\n<p>International Day of Democracy calls upon justice-loving people to stand with besieged Kashmiris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ShamDemocracy #AuthoritarianIndia Islamabad: International Day of Democracy reminds the world that India celebrates the slogan but violates its spirit. According to Kashmir Media Service, democracy is about inclusion, but Modi\u2019s India excludes, marginalizes, and punishes all who resist Hindutva rule India boasts of democracy, but under Modi dissenters, journalists, activists and students are jailed under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/india-democ.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183624,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183617\/revisions\/183624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}