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India's Battle to Control the Democracy Narrative
How the Modi government moved from improving its global democracy rankings to redefining democracy itself—turning narrative control into a governance strategy.
This select team of nine ministers included Ravi Shankar Prasad, Smriti Irani, Prakash Javadekar, S. Jaishankar, Hardeep Singh Puri, Anurag Thakur, Kiren Rijiju, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Babul Supriyo. Staffan Lindberg, Director of the V-Dem Institute In February 2025, Donald Trump’s administration drastically cut the funding for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), abruptly terminating numerous foreign assistance programmes—including several in India. As more information surfaced on the programs funded by USAID, Sanjeev Sanyal, now a member of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, framed this as evidence of a larger conspiracy, describing the move as the sudden collapse of a global “Deep State” influence network he had opposed for years.
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