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Shashi Tharoor slams emergency as 'dark chapter', says people rejected Indira's excesses in ‘77 general poll
The Political and Business Daily
|July 11, 2025
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has criticised the Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, saying the people of the country responded clearly to the excesses of that period by voting her party out of power by a large margin.
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In an article published on the measure, which lasted between 25 June 1975 and 21 March 1977, in the Malayalam daily ‘Deepika’ on Thursday, the Congress Working Committee member termed it "a dark chapter” in India's history and recalled Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi's notorious acts, including forced sterilisation campaigns and the merciless demolition of slums in New Delhi.
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