Question

describe the restrictions imposed on freedom of the press during the internal emergency of 1975​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the early hours of June 26, 1975, then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a state of Emergency in India citing threat to the national security by "internal disturbances". The then prime minister Indira Gandhi suspended the civil liberties - free press among other things - and the Constitution was amended and altered. During the emergency, journalists, Opposition leaders, and activists were thrown in jail under the Draconian rule of Indira Gandhi government. 

“The President has proclaimed Emergency. There is nothing to panic about,” declared Indira Gandhi on All India Radio. While things changed overnight and India was in the face of a Constitutional crisis during the Emergency, the Press freedom was one that took a dark turn.

With freedom of speech being suspended as a fundamental right, the printing presses were raided and for the next two days, the newspapers went out of circulation.