45 Years Of Emergency: A Lookback At Indira Gandhi's Flirtation With Dictatorship

On 25 June 1975 night, prime minister Indira Gandhi announced a national emergency in view of ‘threats to national security.’ This was the day when Jai Prakash Narain, Morarji Desai, and other leading lights opposition had held a public rally at Delhi’s Ram Lila grounds asking Indira to step

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