Question

When did India censor the media?
(а) When there was Emergency in 1975-77
(b) When P.M. Indira Gandhi was Assassinated
(c) When bomb blasts took place
(d) None of the above

Answer 1

(a) when there was emergency in 1975- 77

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Answer 2

The media was censored in India when there was an emergency in 1975 - 1977 (option A)

• From 1975 to 1977 a national emergency was declared in India.
• During this period the press was also censored.
• The emergency was officially declared by the then president of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, on the advice of Indira Gandhi who was the prime minister at that time based on the rationale that there were imminent threats, both internal and external, to India.
• The agitations and emergency in Gujarat, large scale agitations in Bihar led by JP Narayan, and agitations led by George Fernandes in the railway sector were major contributors  to passing the emergency at that time
• The national emergency continued for 21 months.
• The national emergency gave Indira Gandhi the authority to suspend civil liberties and also allowed elections to be canceled.
• During the period of the national emergency many human rights violation were reported.