How can people like Marshall Mendonza shamelessly absolve a woman who
imposed a draconian Emergency in otherwise peaceful India.
She was held guilty of corrupt practices during her election campaign and the
Emergency was a cynical device to perpetuate her hold on the government.
The trajectory of the political crisis that overwhelmed the country following
declaration of emergency by that shameless dictator called Indira Gandhi on the
midnight of 25 June, 1975.
It was the saddest period in the short life of the Indian democracy. It was
the moment when the greatest democratic setup in the world tumbled into a
dictatorship for the sake of a handful of people who were aiming to foist a
dynastic rule on India.
The events leading to the massive preventive detention of political leaders
like Jayaprakash Narain, Morarji Desai, Atal Behari Vajpayee, censorship on
Newspapers and the asphyxiation of liberty by repressive legislation under
the personal supervision of Indira Gandhi and her renegade son Sanjay
Gandhi showed their small mindedness, wickedness, immorality, immaturity and
irresponsibility.
Her pride and arrogance reached the climax during the period of emergency. The
sharp decline of moral values in politics and administration that took place in
Indira Gandhi's time had never been witnessed before. she acquired complete
control over all media. She brought in a new terrorist regime in which her
government could send any citizen to jail at will without disclosing any
reasons.
The biggest casualty of Indira Gandhi's assault on democracy has been the sharp
fall in the moral standards of everyday life in our country. She started
enduring relationship with corruption. Everyone knows that she honored and
exalted corruption that it became an integral part of the texture of our
national life. In short she made unabashed corruption an authentic badge of
Congress government-sponsored greatness in India.
