@article {article422,
    title       = {A stress test for democracy},
    author      = {Jagdish Rattanani},
    journal     = {Foundation of The Billion Press},
    date     = 2023-04-01,
    year     = 2023,
    url     = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/politics/stress-test-democracy-422,
	Abstract 			= {The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the lawyer Kapil Sibal) two-year sentence by a court in Surat in a defamation case marks a turning point of sorts in the accelerated fall of India’s democratic standards in recent years.}
  }