Reflections: Why our netas don't need another Emergency
Before me as I write is a yellowing single-page special edition of The Statesman published on June 26, 1975. How many deaths in Jammu and Kashmir or the so-called “Red Corridor” fall foul of the clause’s main provision that “no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law”? My friend, the late Asoke Krishna Dutta, veteran Congressman and barrister, used to say long before those chaotic post-Emergency months when the Lion and the Unicorn fought for the crown: “The only difference between Indira Gandhi and Charan Singh is that she is a successful dictator, and he isn’t”. Sanjay Gandhi was derided as the Emergency regime’s “extra-constitutional centres” of authority. The crack when Morarji Desai became Prime Minister was that India had three centres of power – the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Jaslok Sabha, Jayaprakash Narayan being virtually resident in Mumbai’s Jaslok Hospital.
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