‘Nat’l disgrace’: TMC slams BJP-led Centre over NHRC ‘downgrading’

Kolkata: Citing reports by a section of the media that the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) had recommended downgrading India's NHRC from category A to category B, TMC on Saturday claimed this was a "price India was paying for BJP's relentless capture of autonomous institutions". It also called the development a "national disgrace".
This is the first time in its history that NHRC's global status could be downgraded, after the GANHRI sub-committee on accreditation's latest recommendation.

"Now, the UN has sounded the alarm: @India_NHRC is no longer functioning independently and should be downgraded from the prestigious ‘A' category to ‘B' over its failure to meet international standards. Reports state the commission is acting with clear political bias and targeting individuals based on their political affiliations. Shockingly, there is no woman in the leadership body of the NHRC. This damning indictment exposes what we've known all along: BJP-led central govt has systematically hijacked and politicised independent institutions to serve its own authoritarian agenda!" TMC posted on X.
" ...This is not just institutional decay, it's a national disgrace scripted by a regime that thrives on control, not constitution," TMC wrote in another post.
The party has been consistently claiming that NHRC had been politicised. Following the Murshidabad violence, Trinamool had asked whether the travel bills of NHRC and NCW were approved only if they had flight tickets to Bengal.