Analyse the circumstances responsible for the declaration of a state of emergeny in India on 25th June 1975
Answers
The condition of India was not good due to the following reasons laid down by the government for the imposition of Emergency.
1. Opposition parties were not allowing the ruling party to rule the country democratically. 2. Fragment agitations, protests and collective action were not good for democracy.
3. Continuous extra-parliamentary politics targeting the government was bad for democracy. 4. The internal disturbance leads to instability and distracts the administration from its routine task of ensuring development. 5. The government diverts all energies for the maintenance of law and order, and as a result, development is not taken care of. 6. Indira Gandhi claimed that subversive forces were trying to obstruct the government’s progressive policies and were attempting to dislodge her from power through extra¬constitutional means. The Congress said that there was an ‘international conspiracy against the unity of India’.