Question

Plz, explain the emergency declared by Indira Gandhi.

Answer 1

The government reached harshly with series of laws which violated civil rights in the name of maintaining order.The opposition also critised the Prime minister for personalising the government.Meanwhile,due to a decision of Allahabad High Court Indira Gandhi was unseated from Lok sabha for violating some of the provisions of the Representation of the Peoples Act during the 1971 elections.However,she got a stay from the Supreme court.

A few days later,with the JP movement gaining more strength,the government imposed Emergency and justified it as necessary to preserve order,save democracy,protect the social and economic transformation and preserve national integrity.

With this democracy was put on hold.The government began a series of repressive measures,claiming that this was necessary to bring order in the country.Many of the fundamental rights were suspended.There were also instances of arbitrary detention,torture, and other violations of civil liberties.While people welcomed control over prices rise and the campaign against black marketing and bounded labour many programmes undertaken by the emergency government such as demolition of slums and forced sterilisation in the name of population control became very unpopular.However,in the absence of civic freedom people could not express their discontent and the government therefore could not take corrective measures.


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