Shah Commission Three former ministers of Indira Gandhi’s cabinet testified before the Shah Commission that they were kept completely in the dark about the imposition of the Emergency. Mrs Gandhi’s senior-most cabinet colleague, Jagjivan Ram, said she had told them later “she wanted to give a shock treatment to the country”. She had given this […]

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