India is “neither North Korea nor China” where expression of opinion is banned, Congress Rajya Sabha MP and Gujarat In-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said on Tuesday while defending humour and satire amid a political row over comedian Pulkit Mani’s mimicry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rahul Gandhi’s student outreach programme in Indore. Speaking to IANS during his Gujarat visit, Surjewala said: “In India, we have always accepted light hearted comments as an essential ingredient of our democratic setup.