All posts tagged "Emergency"

Indira Gandhi 37th death anniversary: Lesser-known facts about the only female Prime Minister of India

On October 31, 1984, the Iron Lady, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguard at her residence.

BJP leaders join in to take a dig at Rahul Gandhi for remarks on Emergency

Nearly five decades after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in India, her grandson and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday admitted that the Emergency...

“If Narasimha Rao had considered IK Gujral’s advice…”: Manmohan Singh on 1984 riots

The 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her four six bodyguards could have been avoided, had the then...

The Role Of The Cold War In Indira Gandhi’s Emergency

~By Saeed Naqvi Indira Gandhi declared the emergency in 1975, plonk in the middle of the most intense phase of the cold war. Détente was going...

Indira Gandhi changed democracy into dictatorship: Arun Jaitley

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Union Minister RK Singh posted this photograph on Twitter calling Emergency as “the darkest in the history of the nation”. (Photo: Twitter/RajKSinghIndia) Union Minister Arun Jaitley...

Rajasthan BJP MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari quits, says will fight corruption, undeclared Emergency

Six-term MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari of Rajasthan BJP has quit the party alleging rampant corruption under chief minister Vasundhara Raje and an undeclared Emergency in the country...

After Nagrota Attack BSF DG’s press conference