{"id":31359,"date":"2013-01-01T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=31359"},"modified":"2013-01-01T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:21:23","slug":"indias-democracy-manipulated-by-elites-interest-groups-chinese-paper-31359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indias-democracy-manipulated-by-elites-interest-groups-chinese-paper-31359\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s democracy manipulated by elites, interest groups: Chinese paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31360\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31360  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/India-China-Nationalturk-01-607x360.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. File Pic\" width=\"340\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/India-China-Nationalturk-01-607x360.jpg 607w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/India-China-Nationalturk-01-280x165.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/India-China-Nationalturk-01.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>According to Chinese State-owned-newspaper Global Times, India&#8217;s democracy is manipulated by small number of elite and interest groups.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Jan 1\/Nationalturk \u2013 The Chinese State-owned-newspaper Global Times has reported that India is about a decade behind China in economic development and said India&#8217;s democracy is manipulated by small number of elite, interest groups.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported that as the world&#8217;s biggest democratic country, India is seen in the West as having great potential due to its superior system. \u201cBut an inefficient and unequal democracy is unlikely to be able to mobilize this potential,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>It further said Indian government is criticized for having reacted slowly and India&#8217;s law enforcement system is considered sloppy. \u201cRape cases in India have a conviction rate of as low as 26 percent even when they reach court. Moreover, the traditional social culture that devalues women should be condemned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian democratic system seemingly can&#8217;t solve these problems but provides legitimacy for them. India&#8217;s democracy is now manipulated by a small number of elite and interest groups. This easily ignites massive grass-roots protests like the current ones and the anti-corruption rallies in August,\u201d the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<h2>India decade behind China in economic development<\/h2>\n<p>The newspaper said democracy should ensure effective public participation in national politics and supervision of the government. \u201cEfficient democracy means more than electoral politics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix decades ago, China and India maintained a similar development level. However, the gap has widened after China explored reform and opening-up. India is about a decade behind China in economic development and three decades behind in social development,\u201d the newspaper said quoting analysts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chinese State-owned-newspaper Global Times, India&#8217;s democracy is manipulated by small number of elite and interest groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,85,101,14],"tags":[42572,42557,2381,42555,41160,42568,42564,42556,42570,42558,42553,40928,42560,2546,8274,42562,42554,42565,42571,42552,42573,42567,42566,42569,42561,42563,42559,20780],"class_list":["post-31359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-anti-corruption","tag-behind","tag-china","tag-chinese-paper","tag-condemned","tag-conviction-rate","tag-criticized","tag-decade","tag-devalues","tag-economic-development","tag-elites","tag-global-times","tag-great-potential","tag-india","tag-indian-government","tag-inefficient","tag-interest-groups","tag-law-enforcement-system","tag-legitimacy","tag-manipulated","tag-rallies","tag-rape-cases","tag-sloppy","tag-social-culture","tag-superior-system","tag-unequal-democracy","tag-west","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}