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Vor 4 Tagen · India - Indira Gandhi, Politics, Reforms: Indira Gandhi’s soft-spoken, attractive personality masked her iron will and autocratic ambition, and most of her Congress contemporaries underestimated her drive and tenacity. During her first year in office, she visited Washington, D.C., where she won substantial support for India’s ...
Vor 13 Stunden · Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's imposition of the Emergency 50 years ago saw democratic rights being suspended, and a brutal crackdown on politicians and the freedom of the press. Ironically, Indira Gandhi justified the suspension of rights during the Emergency as her bid to save democracy. The Emergency was imposed after midnight on June 26 ...
Vor einem Tag · To understand the Emergency, there is a need to look at how tall the stature of Indira Gandhi was in the years preceding it. The Congress split in 1969 and this was followed by a concentration of ...
Vor 2 Tagen · On June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, imposed a 21-month state of emergency in an attempt to crack down on civil liberties. Article 352 of the Indian Constitution gives the ...
Vor einem Tag · With this announcement made through All India Radio, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency in the country. It was on this day — 25 June, 49 years ago — in 1975 — that Emergency was declared for the next almost two years during which widespread arrests took place, the press was heavily censored and there was severe curtailment of civil liberties to India’s millions of ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Indira Gandhi contested in the Rae Bareilly constituency of Uttar Pradesh as a candidate for the Congress party, facing off against Raj Narain. Following Indira's win, Raj Narain proceeded to the Allahabad High Court claiming that Indira Gandhi had violated election rules outlined in the Representation of People’s Act, 1951.
Vor 2 Tagen · India enters the golden jubilee year of Emergency today - imposed by the then Congress government led by the ‘iron lady’ Indira Gandhi on June 25,1975. It was a harrowing time that citizens of ...
