Emergency Period
Background: India in Crisis
- Inflation was above 20%, unemployment soared, and over 50% of Indians lived below the poverty line.
- Foreign exchange reserves had plummeted to just $1.3 billion.
- Congress ruled across India, but was steeped in corruption and nepotism.
Major scandals rocked the country:
> Rustom Nagarwala impersonated Indira Gandhi’s voice to embezzle ₹60 lakhs.
> MP Tulmohan Ram was caught in a license racket.
- Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra was mysteriously assassinated.
- Public protests grew intense:
- Navnirman Andolan erupted in Gujarat.
- JP Movement in Bihar led by Jayaprakash Narayan called for “Total Revolution”.
🛑 June 12, 1975: Judiciary Triggers Political Earthquake
- Allahabad High Court found Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral fraud.
- She was barred from contesting elections for six years.
- Her grip on power weakened; the opposition demanded her resignation.
Instead of stepping down, Sanjay Gandhi and Congress loyalists urged her to crush the opposition.
🛑 June 25, 1975: The Night Democracy Died
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the Emergency Proclamation at midnight—without asking a single question.
- At 1 AM, top opposition leaders including JP, Morarji Desai, Vajpayee, Advani, and RSS Sarsanghchalak Balasaheb Deoras were arrested.
- Over 45,000 nationalists and opposition members jailed under MISA.
- Media blacked out: power to newspaper offices was cut, editors jailed, and censorship imposed.
- Information Minister I.K. Gujral was sacked; replaced by V.C. Shukla, who infamously vowed to “break the press’s spine”.
🛠️ Assault on Constitution and Judiciary
- 39th Amendment nullified the court ruling against Indira.
- 40th Amendment placed PM’s actions beyond judicial scrutiny.
- 42nd Amendment extended Lok Sabha tenure from 5 to 6 years, clipped judiciary’s powers, and centralized authority.
Democracy became dictatorship under the Congress regime.
💣 Sanjay Gandhi’s Terror Regime
Mass sterilizations ordered to control population:
- Millions of Hindu men were forcibly sterilized.
- In Sultanpur (UP), 13 villagers were shot dead for resisting sterilization.
Slum demolitions in Delhi’s Turkman Gate:
- 13 April 1976: 14 bulldozers razed thousands of homes.
- 150+ people killed in police firing.
- Sanjay Gandhi watched the massacre from a hotel window.
Torture in prisons:
- 98 RSS swayamsevaks died in custody.
- Prominent women like Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia and Maharani Gayatri Devi were kept with criminals to humiliate them.
🔥 Resistance Underground
- Despite censorship and jailings, RSS and Lok Sangharsh Samiti continued underground operations.
Satyagraha Movement (14 Nov 1975 – 26 Jan 1976):
- Over 1.3 lakh participated, including 80,000 swayamsevaks.
- Akali Dal held daily protests in Punjab.
- Police responded with brutality, but protests grew.
- Leaders like George Fernandes and Snehilata Reddy were tortured; Reddy died due to inhumane treatment.
⚠️ Attack on Constitution & States’ Rights clipped
- Indira Gandhi dismissed elected governments of:
- Tamil Nadu (Karunanidhi) on 31 Jan 1976.
- Gujarat (Babubhai Patel) on 12 March 1976.
- 5th Lok Sabha term extended beyond its expiry without elections—a mockery of democracy.
🗳️ 1977 Lok Sabha Elections: The People Strike Back
- Jan 1977: Believing she would win, Indira Gandhi lifted Emergency and announced elections.
- Opposition united: RSS, Jan Sangh, Lok Dal, Congress (O), and socialists formed Janata Party.
- 30 Jan 1977: First rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan drew 2 lakh people, crushing media predictions.
- 16–19 March 1977: General elections held.
Results (20–21 March):
- Janata Party won 295 seats—clear majority.
- Congress lost across North India, winning just 1 seat in UP.
- Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Bansilal, and V.C. Shukla were all defeated.
- March 21, 1977: Emergency officially revoked, RSS ban lifted, and democracy restored.
🚨 Warning for the Present and Future
- Even today, Congress and most opposition parties are driven by parivarvad, appeasement, and selfish politics—not the welfare of the nation.
- They ignore national security, sovereignty, and development.
- They are obsessed with Muslim vote banks, not the safety of Bharat Mata.
If these Anti-nationl Forces return to power:
- India could become like Pakistan, Lebanon, or Bangladesh—unstable, poor, and Islamized.
- Non-Muslims may be forced to convert, flee, or die, as in Pakistan, Kashmir, and Bangladesh.
🛑 If we wish to see Bharat among the top 3 global superpowers, we must ensure:
- A strong, nationalist, and pro-Hindutva government at the Center and in all states.
- As of now, there is no viable alternative to the BJP/NDA government.
- Failure to act wisely in elections means choosing destruction over dignity.
- The Emergency was not just a political crisis—it was a civilizational war between tyranny and freedom.
- The 1977 elections proved that the soul of Bharat can never be crushed.
- But history is not just to remember—it is to learn and act.
- Let 1975 not repeat again. Let Dharma win. Let Bharat rise.
🇮🇳Jai Bharat, Vandematram 🇮🇳
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