05/09/2026
The BJP’s climate of intimidation has compelled Penguin Random House India to walk away from publishing CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji’s memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love.
Those who dare to express dissent through words are being suppressed, while writers and publishers are forced to operate under the BJP’s censorship and scrutiny.
This is how democratic spaces are crushed under BJP governance. This is precisely why V-Dem’s Democracy Index rates India at its lowest level since 1975.
The BJP is pushing dissent, free expression and democracy itself into silence.
Indian National Congress Rahul Gandhi Priyanka Gandhi Vadra