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Which rank did India Slips On EIU Democracy Index?
A
42
B
50
C
65
D
85
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Overall, India’s score on index stands at 66 in 2022, down from 77 in 20185. The decline has been on account of the category Civil Liberties which declined from 42 in 2018 to 33 in 2022. The score on Political Rights also declined slightly from 35 in 2018 to 33 in 2022 (Figure 2).

Detailed explanation-2: -India is part of a broader global trend of an anti-plural political party driving a country’s autocratisation. It was ranked 93rd in the LDI, India figures in the “bottom 50%” of countries. It has slipped further down in the Electoral Democracy Index, to 100, and even lower in the Deliberative Component Index, at 102.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ans : India has ranked 46 th in the global democracy index 2021 as per the economist intelligence unit. India has scored 6.75 to come 46th. Norway with the highest score of 9.75 has backed rank 1.

Detailed explanation-4: -India is a parliamentary democratic secular republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the prime minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government, although the word is not used in the Constitution itself.

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