India is not considered a democracy anymore. V-dem [1] classifies India as an electoral autocracy.

Global State of Democracy Initiative rank shows that India has slipped significantly and steadily since 2013, since the demagogue Modi took over [2]

Backsliding of democracy in India is nothing new, but has happened rapidly over the past 7 years [3]

India is not only a fragile democracy, it is completely broken now.

As Barack Obama has recently commented to Christian Amanpour in an interview, if the trends continue as they do, India will disintegrate in near future.

[1]: https://v-dem.net/documents/29/V-dem_democracyreport2023_lowres.pdf

[2]: https://idea.int/democracytracker/country/india

[3]: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-democratic-backsliding-of-india/article37696763.ece