Shashi Tharoor has articulated how the "trauma" in affected communities played out during the polls after the Emergency, in which India voted out Indira Gandhi.
New Delhi:In another move that is likely to widen his rift with the Congress leadership, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor has written an article on the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975. Besides articulating the excesses during the Emergency and the lessons we must learn from them, Mr Tharoor also pointed to how these excesses were "downplayed", a barb aimed at his party colleagues.
The Emergency is a tricky subject for the Congress, especially since the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014 and started observing June 25 -- the day the Emergency was announced -- as Samvidhan Hatya Divas. The Opposition party has tried to counter the BJP's narrative, saying it has imposed an "undeclared Emergency".
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