Saddam, Gaddafi used to win elections too , says Rahul Gandhi ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 02:55 IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Lambasting the Centre over reports claiming decline of democracy in India, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Iraq s dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya s Muammar Gaddafi used to win elections as well. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi used to have elections. They used to win them. It wasn t like they weren t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote, Rahul Gandhi said in online interaction with Brown University.
He made this comment while reacting to a question of Professor Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University on reports by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), a Sweden-based institute which downgraded India to an electoral autocracy, citing a decline in democratic freedoms and Freedom House analysis which shifted India s status from a free country to partly-free.