They are very similar..

"Amid the ongoing protests against the three new agricultural laws the ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) Sunday passed a resolution lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Center for bringing these resolutions, saying they are in farmers' interest and will ensure better prices for their produce." This resolution comes about two months before elections to assemblies of four large states, plus Puducherry, of which the BJP controls only Assam. In China, Xi Jinping was elected president for life by the National People's Congress in 2018. He is now the most powerful, unchallenged leader since Mao Zedong. He has increasingly consolidated power to himself, imposed obedience within the party and public, blanketed the country with intrusive surveillance system, demanded an obsequious and unquestioning media and imprisoned thousands of Muslim Uighurs. "But what's happened to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which surpassed the Communist Party of China in 2015 to become the world's largest political outfit. Last heard, party president JP Nadda was counting 18 crore (180 million) BJP members, and saying that only seven countries have more people in them," wrote DK Singh. "But none would venture out of their dens in Lutyens' Delhi and go to villages in the bordering states -- or even to Delhi's borders like Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur -- to tell agitators why the PM is right and they are wrong." "Last year India dropped two places and was ranked 142 on the 180-country World Press Freedom Index, compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders," reported BBC. After a protester died during a rally on 26 January the police "filed criminal charges -- including sedition and making statements inimical to national integration -- against eight journalists who covered the protests in Delhi". "Sixty-seven journalists arrested and nearly 200 physically attacked in 2020, according to a study by Geeta Seshu for the Free Speech Collective." Cabinet ministers know that "Modi has done more to curb press freedom than any prime minister since Indira Gandhi. Foreign correspondents who have written critical pieces on him have found restrictions imposed on their visas. Within India editors have been summarily dismissed for having the wrong attitude," wrote Tavleen Singh. "Why are today's film and cricketing superstars so unwilling to stand up to any form of executive power and instead resort to obsequious sycophancy, the latest example being the flood on near identical tweets on farm laws?" asked Rajdeep Sardasai. "In a regime paranoid about image management, the hugely popular stars are pawns in a perception war, remote-controlled by an all-powerful Big State, any defiance of which could lead to unforeseen circumstances." "It is quite unprecedented to see the government literally barricading itself and its seat of power -- Delhi," wrote Suhas Palshikar. "Assigning the idea of 'we the people' strictly to constitutional folklore, the government is sending out a chilling message to all citizens that their status as citizens is devoid of citizenship rights." "There would not be many agitations in the past when the government was alleged to have dug roads or strewn the roads with nails, besides erecting walls." Delhi Police is using the controversial facial recognition technology to arrest protesters, reported the Financial Times. Several cities and states in the US have banned the use of facial recognition by government agencies. The BJP under Modi and Amit Shah takes a tough approach to any dissent because it "believes that there is a network of academics, activists, journalists and few Opposition leaders (the Khan Market gang in its lingo) that keeps scheming to delegitimise the Modi government in the public eye". "Why is the independence and integrity of the SC (Supreme Court) being questioned in the public domain, in a way that it has not been since the Emergency?" asked Gautam Bhatia. "There are a few characteristic features that have marked judicial conduct during this period, which are of serious concern.". The BJP is apparently bigger than the Chinese Communist Party. And very similar.