%A Jagdish Rattanani %T A stress test for democracy %! A stress test for democracy %X 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. %U https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/politics/stress-test-democracy-422