The 1975 Emergency and Its Lessons for Today

NewsClick's Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkyastha talks about the Emergency, which was imposed by Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975. He talks about how political activists, media persons, and the people as a whole dealt with the attack on their rights, and links the struggles and resistance of those times to the challenges of today.

He also talks about the attack on institutions then and now, and contemporary attacks on democracy.

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[masoodsiddiqui]

Aren't we living today under undeclared emergency. Aren't we are facing much hardships today under this undeclared Emergency

[sanjaydubey]

World mein Kahin bhi Kisi Desh mein, Manavta aur Insaaniyat ki Raksha Honee Chahiye.---- AJAM, Buxar, Bihar.

[rajnishtuli]

Today Modiji wali emergency ko kya kahe.. ICU unit on ventilator..??? 😢😢

[billuchampak]

Still I would say that emergency under NaMo is much more dangerous than that under indira. NaMo is the only Indian PM who has been completely unchecked. Indira was dictator just for two years, but we will have to bear modi for coming 10 years and have been bearing him since 2014. I won't go into much details, you guys understand what I mean. I can give you 100 examples . People are saying that with opposition unity, BJP will be defeated. But I personally feel that they will do something brute so that opposition doesn't come to power. As far as previous versions of BJP are concerned, they also wanted manusmriti inspired constitution, but did not come with absolute majority and so couldn't fulfill the dream.

[Suresh_Kamath]

But the reason for convicting Indira Gandhi was very flimsy. Similar to disqualifying Rahul Gandhi.

Modi is routinely violating all kind of electrol laws.