King of democracy.

"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh...said work is being done for the upliftment and prosperity of India's cultural heritage under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi." "Only saints and sages have the right to review the work of a king," Singh said. DH. And we were under the delusion that India is a democratic federal republic. "India is the mother of democracy," claimed Mr Modi at the joint sitting of the US Congress. "Democracy is the idea that welcomes debate and discourse," said His Majesty. One of his devoted courtiers, "Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan...equated the meeting of opposition parties in Patna with 'animals' perching on a tree to save themselves from the flood of PM Modi's popularity." ET. "Opposition parties in Assam...claimed that 95% of cases registered by CBI and ED in the last four years are against leaders of political parties that are rivals of the ruling BJP." TNIE. The rest 5% were probably against genuine criminals because, "Not a single case named any leader of the saffron party, they said." Saints and sages all. "Then Jesus said unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." wikipedia. "The Madurai city police have registered a case against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on a complaint by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) that officials from the federal agency prevented them from discharging their duties in the case where ED officer Ankit Tiwari has been booked on charges of bribery. DVAC arrested Tiwari on December 1 for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million). Later in the day, they carried out a raid at ED's sub-zonal office in Madurai." HT. "As the war between the Tamil Nadu government and the ED escalates,"  "the central agency has shifted its probe against its own officer, who is the accused in the case, as well as official's of the state's DVAC to its New Delhi headquarters." TOI. This is not just a tussle between the DMK government of Tamil Nadu and the central government of the BJP, but also between a southern state and the Hindi-speaking north. Tiwari is a Hindi name. "DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran came under fire...for his derogatory remarks about people from the Hindi heartland undertaking menial jobs in Tamil Nadu, sparking a new north-south debate." TOI. These menials from the Hindi heartland are planning to take total control of parliament through delimitation in 2026 (pib,gov.in), because of their higher birthrates. The government projects that delimitation will increase Lok Sabha seats from 543 to about 753. Vaishnav and Hintson calculate that the 5 southern states will see the total number of their seats rise by 11%, from 129 to 143, while the 4 Hindi states of UP, Bihar, MP and Rajasthan will see the share of their seats rise by 63% from 174 to 284 seats. Since the BJP won 90% of the seats in those states in 2019 Mr Modi will remain king forever. Wrote Neelanjan Sircar. How did the "mother of democracy" give birth to a king? Through the Hindi-speaking North. The rest of us are irrelevant.