“1975 emergency pronounced by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is an inalienable part of the post independence constitutional history of the country and coming generations in this country will remember it for all the bad reasons”.
Home Minister Amit Shah declaring that the country would observe June 25,1975 as “Samividhaan Hatya Diwas” ( Murder Of Constitution Day) is yet another resolve of the BJP led NDA Government to secure and safeguard the constitutional rights of 1.4 billion population of the country. Political morality demands that opposition political parties particularly the Congress Party joins ruling BJP led NDA coalition in taking a pledge that emergency won’t be allowed to happen again in this country. Congress leadership may or may not agree but the fact remains that emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the year 1975 brought into disrepute the glorious democratic traditions of the country. In fact 1975 emergency pronounced by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is an inalienable part of the post independence constitutional history of the country and coming generations in this country will remember it for all the bad reasons. Interestingly one of the most popular media veterans of the country Kuldeep Nayar had in one of his opinions attributed the pronouncement of emergency to the rise of dynasty politics in India. Kuldeep Nayar has passed years ago but his remarks about the emergency and future of dynastic politics in India show huge relevance to the current political scenario in this country. While the fact remains that a single unpopular decision of the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spoiled the future of the Congress party and shut the doors for dynasty politics in the country, the present generations of the first political families in this country are struggling hard for their survival in politics both at the centre and as well as in the states.
“Political consciousness among the masses has risen to such greater heights that people in power have lost the strength and capacity to suspend civil liberties and free speech, and enforce decisions arbitrarily to silence dissenting voices in one or many parts of the country. For people both in power and the opposition it is time to draw lessons from late Indira Gandhi’s emergency era to the current phase of coalition politics. After all the motive to June 25, 1975 as “Samividhaan Hatya Diwas” ( Murder Of Constitution Day) is to strengthen the institutions of public representation and democracy in the country.”
Poll debacles of the present generations of several political families is a new trend that heads to no dead end both in the parliamentary and as well as assembly elections The emergence of performance based politics in recent years has in fact drastically reduced the relevance of dynasty politics and consequently the re-occurrence of emergency in the country. Political consciousness among the masses has risen to such greater heights that people in power have lost the strength and capacity to suspend civil liberties and free speech, and enforce decisions arbitrarily to silence dissenting voices in one or many parts of the country. For people both in power and the opposition it is time to draw lessons from late Indira Gandhi’s emergency era to the current phase of coalition politics. After all the motive to June 25, 1975 as “Samividhaan Hatya Diwas” ( Murder Of Constitution Day) is to strengthen the institutions of public representation and democracy in the country.
