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In an outspoken and hard-hitting interview, Pratap Bhanu

Mehta, the former Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University
and one of contemporary India’s most highly regarded
political thinkers, has said the Narendra Modi government,
“colloquially speaking, is fascist”.

Mehta said even though the government is committed to

winning elections to secure power, “in every other way it
ticks the checklist of fascist qualities”. After specifying in
detail what these are, Mehta concludes that “colloquially

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