NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said that the growing culture of loyalty to political leaders over commitment to ideas and principles is weakening India’s democracy. Without naming any individual or party, his remarks appeared to question the trend of leader-centric politics - including within his own party. “Each party’s insistence on loyalty to its leaders rather than to a set of convictions and the very principles undermines democracy,” Tharoor said, as part of a broader reflection on India’s political future. He observed that as public discourse becomes “increasingly shrilled and polarised”, there is “little space left for serious engagement with political values.” Tharoor said India’s political imagination had long been shaped by larger ideologic

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