I just gave you a bunch of examples of the politicians using the police to restrict or restrain the Indian people in some manner in contravention to constitutio

I just gave you a bunch of examples of the politicians using the police to restrict or restrain the Indian people in some manner in contravention to constitutional principles over the past few decades. Sure, India is not a fully authoritarian state, but the folks elected have always had such tendencies. The current government still has to contest elections (and still loses them at state level), but you wouldn’t deny they are authoritarian. And many state governments (controlled by different parties of different political persuasions, as I have listed above) display the same tendencies: authority exercised via coercion and arbitrary rules. Democracy and authoritarianism are not opposites. They occupy a spectrum - democracies can display authoritarian characteristics and vice versa.