{
  "id": 1516411,
  "title": "When Opposition Turns Into Obstruction, Democracy Pays The Price",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/when-opposition-turns-into-obstruction-democracy-pays-the-price",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T15:49:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-opposition-turns-into-obstruction-democracy-pays-the-price"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament was virtually washed out. The so-called Hug Diplomacy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly became an unsavoury national debate. Senior Congress leaders boycotted the Independence Day celebration at Red Fort. This is not to list the political developments of the last week but an attempt to find out which direction the world’s largest democracy…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}