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The Emergency: 50 Years On
Fifty years ago, on the night of June 25, 1975, the Indira Gandhi government invoked Article 352 of the Constitution to declare Emergency on the grounds of “internal disturbance” – the first and only time this clause was used in Independent India. As press censorship followed, The Indian Express defied threats and odds to bring to readers the trampling of democracy. This series captures 21 months of a State at its worst, and a people at their finest.
THE EMERGENCY: 50 YEARS ON NEWS
Emergency, Congress and a politics of hypocrisy
July 01, 2025 11:23 am
50 years after Emergency, Congress has neither apologised nor learnt any lesson
The crisis before the crisis — how a failing economy was one of the triggers for the Emergency
June 30, 2025 9:08 am
Droughts, high inflation, and low growth over a 10-year period pit the country against the government and its leader
When Indira asked I&B Minister Gujral to hold her raincoat: ‘You can't do any other work’
June 30, 2025 3:50 am
In an interview, Gujral also remembered the night of June 25, 1975, when power supply at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg was cut off so that newspapers could not come out the day the country heard about the imposition of the Emergency in the country.
Emergency, 50 years on: The Sanjay gang, and what Shah Commission said about them
June 29, 2025 9:28 am
It detailed the misuse of power during the Emergency by politicians, bureaucrats and a yoga guru, most of them considered close to the Gandhi family, particularly Sanjay
Shy of a ‘sorry’, Congress came to power again after Emergency, but never regained its authority
June 30, 2025 11:37 am
In 2021, Rahul Gandhi said the Emergency was a “mistake” and “wrong”, but quickly added that the Congress never tried “to capture institutional framework” which, he said, was happening now.
Tavleen Singh writes: In praise of Democracy
June 29, 2025 8:22 am
We may not be the ‘Mother of democracy’ as our Prime Minister likes to tell the world, but in modern times, we have been a democratic republic, and this is something we should all be proud of. Democracy is something that we must cherish.
‘Sanjay wanted Emergency lifted before elections, Mrs Gandhi said no’: Kamal Nath
June 28, 2025 7:55 pm
“I look at it as a period when the country was very disciplined. Of course you had the downside of the arrests, detentions. But we must understand: all the trains worked on time,” says senior Congress leader and then close Sanjay aide
A ‘Nasbandi Colony’ and a ‘Mata Indira Sanjay Act’: 50 years later, ghosts are vivid at Turkman Gate
June 28, 2025 11:58 am
As per the Shah Commission, six people were killed when police opened fire in the area on April 19, 1976, on protesters, angry over demolitions, sterilisations
'I was in jail with RSS leaders... People tried to hear each other out then': Jamaat leader
June 30, 2025 2:04 pm
Ejaz Ahmed Aslam was among hundreds of Jamaat-e-Islami Hindi members arrested across India during Emergency, says Indira govt "misunderstood" them
Those who were in jail: Political detainees between 1975-77 talk about the Emergency
June 28, 2025 7:58 pm
Fifty years ago, on the night of June 25, 1975, the Indira Gandhi government invoked Article 352 of the Constitution to declare Emergency — the first and only time this clause was used in Independent India.
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