In a scathing attack on the Modi government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday,. September 14, 2022, alleged that power has become intensely concentrated over the past eight years in a handful of politicians and business persons, which is undermining India's democracy and institutions.
She also alleged that constitutional values and principles are under assault, with the bonds of social harmony being deliberately stretched to a breaking point in order to keep voters polarised for electoral gains.
In an op-ed piece in the Hindustan Times, the Congress chief said that all too frequently, previously independent authorities have been reduced to "tools of the executive", ready to do its bidding in a partisan and heavy-handed way.
