Ms Mahua Moitra, member of the lower house of India’s Parliament—the Lok Sabha (House of the People)—cited and drew upon the work of Prof Tarun Khaitan i on 13 December 2024. In the speech, the MP referenced the three modes of executive accountability developed by Prof Khaitan in a paper titled , published by Law & Ethics of Human Rights in 2020. Drawing upon the findings of the paper, she explained how all three modes of executive accountability—vertical accountability to the people, horizontal accountability to state institutions, and discursive accountability to civil society—have been undermined over the last decade. This paper has previously been quoted by and was discussed with India’s veteran interviewer Karan Thapar ().