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 The Emergency Period of 1975is considered as the
darkest hour the democratic system in India.

 The Indian Emergency of 25 June 1975 ± 21 March

1977 was a 21-month period.

 Emergency was a great lesson to the democratic

system in India. The country needs to be alert to
internal threats to its democracy.
POLITICAL UNREST

THE ALLAHABAD
CONVICTION
 Indira's party, Congress, had practiced
electoral fraud to win the 1971 elections.
 Gandhian socialist Jaya Prakash Narayan
for a change in
The President can declare three
types of emergencies:

m NATIONAL EMERGENCY
m STATE EMERGENCY
m FINANCIAL EMERGENCY
 caused by war, external aggression or armed
rebellion in the whole of India or a part of its
territory.

 In such an emergency, Fundamental Rights of

Indian citizens can be suspended.

 The term of the Lok Sabha can be extended by a

period of one year but not more than six months
from the date when the emergency has ceased
to exist
 State emergency is declared on failure of
constitutional machinery in a state.

 The state of emergency is commonly known as

µPresident's Rule¶.

 It is imposed for six months and can last for a

maximum period of three years

 During such an emergency, the President can

take over the entire work of the executive.
 President is satisfied that there is an economic
situation in which the financial stability of India
is threatened, then he can declare financial
emergency.

 Such an emergency must be approved by the

Parliament within two months.

 In case of a financial emergency, the President

can reduce the salaries of all government
officials
 Siddharth Sankar Ray, the West Bengal chief
minister, proposed to Mrs Gandhi the
imposition of "internal emergency".
 President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a
State of Emergency upon the advice of the
Prime Minister on 26 June 1975.
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 The greatest democratic setup in the world

turned out to a dictatorship for the sake of a
handful of selfish people.

 Indira Gandhi introduced a twenty point plan

to divert the attention of the public and to
convince them that the emergency would
become an engine of great social change
and common economic development
 Elections for the Parliament and state
governments were postponed

 Indira granted herself extraordinary powers

and launched a massive crackdown on civil
liberties and political opposition.

 In face of massive political opposition,

desertion and disorder across the country
and the party
 J.P. Narayan, Raj Narain, Morarji Desai, Charan
Singh, Jivatram Kripalani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
Satyendra Narayan Sinha and other protest
leaders were immediately arrested

 Organizations such as the Rashtriya

Swayamsevak Sangh, along with some
opposition political parties were banned.
 After the declaration of the Emergency, the
Sikh leadership convened meetings in
Amritsar where they resolved to oppose the
"fascist tendency of the Congress³.

 The first mass protest in the country, known

as the "Campaign to Save Democracy´.
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