Shashi Tharoor's sly dig at BJP, tweets a new word 'Anocracy'

Congress' Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday put out a sarcastic tweet taking a dig at the BJP government at the centre. He used the word 'Anocracy' to describe a form of government that melds democracy with autocratic features.

Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a sarcastic dig aimed at the BJP government at the centre, has introduced a new word 'Anocracy' which is used to describe a form of government that melds democracy with autocratic features.

"A word we'd better start learning in India: ANOCRACY. Form of government that mixes democratic w/ autocratic features, permits elections, allows participation through opposition parties & institutions accommodating nominal amounts of competition, but acts w/minimal accountability," the 65-yr old Congress MP tweeted.

• A word we'd better start learning in India: ANOCRACY. Form of government that mixes democratic w/ autocratic features, permits elections, allows participation through opposition parties& institutions accommodating nominal amounts of competition, but acts w/minimal accountability.

  — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 9, 2022 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="

  A word we'd better start learning in India: ANOCRACY. Form of government that mixes democratic w/ autocratic features, permits elections, allows participation through opposition parties& institutions accommodating nominal amounts of competition, but acts w/minimal accountability.

  — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 9, 2022

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  A word we'd better start learning in India: ANOCRACY. Form of government that mixes democratic w/ autocratic features, permits elections, allows participation through opposition parties& institutions accommodating nominal amounts of competition, but acts w/minimal accountability.

  — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 9, 2022

Earlier too, Tharoor had tweeted the words - "allodoxaphobia" (an irrational fear of opinions), "pogonotrophy" (the cultivation of a beard)", "paraprosdokians" (a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence/phrase is unexpected) and "floccinaucinihilipilification" (the action or habit of estimating something as worthless).