Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinay Natekar <[email protected]>
34 Years Back on this day the 25th June 1975 was the blackest day in Post Independence India when Indira Gandhi who heading the dynastic Congress Party imposed an Internal Emergency in India to suppress her opponents and not due to internal security of the country. The Indian democracy stood subverted by Congress Party Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and India was to be under a draconian siege till the 1977 General Elections. Mario asks: Vinay, If the State of Emergency was imposed only to suppress her political opponents, then a) how did Indira Gandhi get away with it legally, and b) why did she cancel her "draconian siege" in 1977 and agree to general elections, in which she and her Congress party were soundly defeated? If I'm not mistaken, India is the only country in history that has gone from a democracy to a dictatorship, which the State of Emergency was, and then back to a democracy without any serious internal civil war or outside interference, when the dictator voluntarily agreed to free elections and was ousted as a consequence.
