Commentaries by Shelal Lodhi Rajput

The Doom of Democracy in Sri Lanka

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The Doom of Democracy in Sri Lanka

Shelal Lodhi Rajput

October 9, 2020 11:00:13 pm

A democracy is balanced mainly on the supremacy of law as no one is above law. The recent development in this month raising a serious threat towards the doom of democracy. The loggerhead battle and the shuffle up of the whole country was witnessed by the whole world in the last two years. Now, a [...]

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