Shashi Tharoor's critical analysis of the Emergency sparked a Congress infight, with Manickam Tagore accusing him of echoing BJP rhetoric. The BJP seized on the rift, alleging the Congress still defends the "Emergency mindset."
New Delhi: A fresh bout of infighting has erupted inside the Congress after Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor revisited the 1975-77 Emergency in a hard-hitting opinion piece, prompting party colleague Manickam Tagore to accuse him of echoing Bharatiya Janata Party talking-points. The spat, quickly seized on by the BJP, has revived debate over how India remembers one of its darkest political chapters.
Writing in Project Syndicate, Tharoor argued that the Emergency must be studied “in all its complexity” rather than dismissed as a single blot. He reminded readers that excesses meant to “bring discipline often descended into brutality,” citing forced sterilisations and mass slum demolitions led by Sanjay Gandhi.
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