Rahul Gandhi flags India’s slide in democratic norms Updated: Updated: The Congress leader cites thinktank report that downgraded India to an ‘elected autocracy’. Share Article The Congress leader cites thinktank report that downgraded India to an ‘elected autocracy’. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday tweeted a news report on the findings of a Swedish institute that claimed that India had turned into an “elected autocracy” to question the country’s status as a democratic country. “India is no longer a democratic country,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted, tagging a news report about the Swedish institute’s latest finding. On Wednesday, Sweden-based V-Dem [Varieties of Democracy] Institute released a report that downgraded India as a democracy and placed it below neighbours such as Bangladesh and Nepal.