1975 Emergency
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Muqabla: 50 years of emergency..questions are still being raised on the Gandhi family
News | Jun 25, 2025, 11:21 PM ISTMuqabla: 50 years of emergency..questions are still being raised on the Gandhi family
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Aaj Ki Baat: Rajat Sharma recalls "dark night" of 1975 Emergency
Aaj Ki Baat | Jun 25, 2025, 11:14 PM ISTFifty years ago, on the night of 25 June at 11:45 pm, the ordinance declaring emergency was signed by the President… and at six in the morning a cabinet meeting was called and it was ratified.
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50 Years of Emergency: How the Emergency Gave Rise to a New Generation of Indian Politicians
Originals | Jun 25, 2025, 08:46 PM ISTThe Emergency, imposed by Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975, lasted 21 months. Seen as India's darkest period, it led to the rise of a new generation of political leaders.
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Kahani Kursi Ki: Have those raising the issue of Constitution forgotten the Emergency?
News | Jun 25, 2024, 04:57 PM ISTBJP's attack on Congress Congress had destroyed independence – Modi India's Constitution was trampled - Modi Congress had strangled democracy – Yogi Opposition was put in jail by imposing emergency- Yogi
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TOP 9 News: Imposing emergency was a mistake, says Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
News | Mar 03, 2021, 09:47 AM ISTIn a conversation with Kaushik Basu, professor in the Cornell University in the US and India's former chief economic advisor, Gandhi said he is all for internal democracy in the Congress, which fought for India's independence, gave the country its Constitution and stood for equality. Asked about his views on the Emergency, he said, "I think that was a mistake. Absolutely, that was a mistake. And my grandmother (Indira Gandhi) said as much."
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Emergency was a mistake: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
News | Mar 02, 2021, 11:30 PM ISTTerming the Emergency that was imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi a "mistake", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said what happened during that period was "wrong", but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress at no point attempted to capture the country's institutional framework.
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Aaj Ki Baat: The untold story of how Rajat Sharma was tortured, imprisoned during 1975 Emergency
Aaj Ki Baat | Jun 25, 2020, 11:44 PM ISTIndia TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma reveals the untold story of how he was tortured by Delhi Police and then imprisoned in Tihar jail during 1975 Emergency. Watch Aaj Ki Baat for in-depth coverage.
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Jaitley recalls 1975 Emergency in his three-part blog series; slams Congress for subverting democratic principles
India | Jun 26, 2018, 06:59 PM ISTJaitley, like always did not mince words in criticising the Congress government for unleashing a sense of fear in people's mind and subverting democratic principles during the 21-month-long period.
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Textbooks should include chapter on Emergency to highlight atrocities: Naqvi
India | Jun 25, 2018, 08:55 PM ISTOn a day that marks 43 years since the Emergency was imposed, Naqvi said it was the "biggest blot on Indian democracy" with hundreds of people "killed and oppressed in jail".
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1975 Emergency: Why June 25 is called 'Black Day' of Indian democracy?
India | Jun 25, 2018, 06:26 PM IST1975 emergency: It was on the night of June 25-26 when the 1975 Emergency was officially issued by the then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
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Listening to songs provided pastime during emergency: Advani
National | May 17, 2015, 07:36 AM ISTMumbai: Recalling his nineteen-month stay in jail during the emergency imposed in 1975, BJP patriarch L K Advani today said listening to songs on a transistor was his favourite activity to pass the time.“My real
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Indira didn't know what constitutional provision to use for imposing 1975 Emergency, claims Pranab in his book
National | Jan 06, 2015, 10:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, in his upcoming book, has revisited the entire sequence of events that led to imposition of Emergency in the country in 1975 and has disclosed that the then Prime Minister
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Watch rare pics of Narendra Modi posing as a Sikh during Emergency
National | May 23, 2014, 05:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Emergency of 1975 was a turning point in the political career of Narendra Modi. That was the time when he came in touch with L K Advani and became a member of