50 years ago, Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency - the darkest chapter of Indian democracy. From the split in Congress to the court verdict, here's what happened then

Emergency 50 years | Congress, 1971 victory and court verdict: How Indira Gandhi brought 'darkest chapter in Indian democracy'

As India marks 49 years since the Emergency, it's a time to remember the dark days in the country's history. The Emergency, imposed on June 25, 1975, by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a period of censorship, arrests without warrants and the suspension of many democratic freedoms.

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On the 44th of the Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several BJP leaders recalled the period as "one of the darkest chapters in India's history" and marked the day as when "democracy was strangulated".

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The Indira Gandhi Government laid out some ground rules for the journalists across the country and they were told about certain “guidelines” to follow. Three years ago, Kalpana Sharma, former Editor of Himmat said by the time they came to know what exactly was happening in the nation, many leaders and activists were in jail.

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Lashing out at the BJP rule at the Centre, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the country reeled from a “super Emergency” in the past five years.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid homage to people who resisted the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975. "India salutes all those greats who fiercely and fearlessly resisted the Emergency.

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