There are unmistakable similarities. But as we get to experience the Modi regime and Modi persona more and more, it's time also to distinguish between the two. https://twitter.com/waglenikhil/status/1329279405114310656

First is a foundational contempt of democracy as opposed to Indira Gandhi's cynical use of non democratic methods.

Second is the systematic institutionalization of hate and exclusion as tenets of polity. She did not do that.

Third is the political penalty she paid and implicitly accepted the 'mistake' as against the conviction of Modi that he has done nothing wrong.

Four, the existence of a larger project to undermine heritage of coexistence along with a ready organizational instrument.

Above all the changes in public opinion that may onky grow stronger. IG could not really penetrate the culture of democratic politics in deeper sense though she deinstitutionalized many dimensions of democracy.

In sum, IG represents a moment of deinstitutionalizing democracy. The present is the moment of institutionalizing non-democracy.