Author Nitasha Kaul (Opinion, October 30) overstates her claims that India’s electoral bond system is having a pernicious impact on its democracy by entrenching the facility of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata social gathering (BJP).

In actuality, the ruling authorities in New Delhi is something however a centralising autocracy. The BJP has witnessed an erosion in its management of state governments over the previous 5 years. At its peak in March 2018, the BJP and its allies had been governing 21 Indian states, encompassing 70 per cent of India’s inhabitants and greater than three-quarters of its space. Since then, Modi’s coalition has skilled a cavalcade of electoral defeats, most just lately in Karnataka, residence to the tech metropolis of Bengaluru.

The BJP alliance is now in energy in solely 16 states, masking lower than half the nation’s inhabitants and land mass. The peaceable switch of energy, the cardinal characteristic of a democracy, is alive and nicely in Modi’s India.

This is much from the rhetorical sophistry of Professor Kaul’s assertions of a majoritarian political undertaking subverting the nation’s democratic values.

Nathan Punwani
Scottsdale, AZ, US