'Emergency' to figure in school textbooks: Javadekar
6 years, 8 months ago

'Emergency' to figure in school textbooks: Javadekar

ABP News  

Jaipur: Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that students shall study an "Emergency chapter" as it will be a part of their school textbooks soon. Talking to the media, Javadekar said the government will include the "whole story" of Emergency in school curricula for students to understand the reality of the time. He said that 1975-77 Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will always remain a black chapter in Indian history. The HRD Minister was among several party leaders who attended an event that the BJP called a "black day" to mark the 43rd anniversary of Emergency which was clamped on June 26, 1975.

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‘Emergency’ chapter to be part of school curriculum in Madhya Pradesh
8 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Emergency’ chapter to be part of school curriculum in Madhya Pradesh

Hindustan Times  

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday announced the inclusion of a chapter on the Emergency in the state's school curriculum. Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav According to Yadav, the motive behind this step is to make the present generation aware of the struggle during the 1975 to 1977 Emergency period. “…A lesson on circumstances that prevailed in …

Emergency will be remembered for 4,800 years: Bhupendra Yadav
1 year, 8 months ago

Emergency will be remembered for 4,800 years: Bhupendra Yadav

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: Union labour and employment minister Bhupendra Yadav on Sunday said that the central government led by prime minister Narendra Modi stands by the independence of the judiciary, election commission and media. Emergency will be remembered for 4,800 years: Bhupendra Yadav Yadav said that not only the independence of these constitutional institutions, but the fundamental rights given by the Constitution …

Review: India’s Undeclared Emergency by Arvind Narrain
2 years, 4 months ago

Review: India’s Undeclared Emergency by Arvind Narrain

Hindustan Times  

The book has a contentious title. 314pp, ₹699; Westland The author’s main reference point for India’s democratic backslide is Indira Gandhi’s ignominious internal emergency. The author has noted citizens’ resistance to the Emergency, albeit fleetingly, including that of trade unionist George Fernandes and the dissenting judgment of Justice HR Khanna in the famous habeas corpus case. He cites the examples …

Lessons for freedom from the Emergency
5 years, 7 months ago

Lessons for freedom from the Emergency

Live Mint  

New Delhi: His arrest was inevitable. On 30 June 1975, five days after then prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in the country, Rai was arrested in Banaras, where he moved from Bihar the same day. “…Those days, everyone—from a Congress worker to MPs to MLAs—was an informer…the ears for the police,” says Rai, now the chairman of the …

44th anniversary of Emergency: Narendra Modi says democracy prevailed over authoritarianism, Rajnath terms period 'darkest chapters in Indian history'
5 years, 8 months ago

44th anniversary of Emergency: Narendra Modi says democracy prevailed over authoritarianism, Rajnath terms period 'darkest chapters in Indian history'

Firstpost  

BJP leaders on Monday remembered the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 25 June, 1975 and paid homage to all those who resisted the Emergency. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid homage to all “those greats” who resisted the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 25 June, 1975 and said …

Revisiting the Emergency
5 years, 10 months ago

Revisiting the Emergency

The Hindu  

The BJP election theme slogans phir ek baar Modi sarkar and Modi hai to mumkin hai have echoes of “Indira is India” — the slogan raised by acolytes of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in the 1970s. It is commonly assumed that the Emergency was “a momentary distortion in India’s proud record of democracy,” to quote historian Gyan Prakash from …

BJP calls the 1975 Emergency a ‘black period’, will figure in textbooks says the HRD minister
6 years, 8 months ago

BJP calls the 1975 Emergency a ‘black period’, will figure in textbooks says the HRD minister

Op India  

The HRD minister, Prakash Javadekar, speaking at a Delhi BJP function today, termed the 1975 Emergency period as a ‘black period’ and an assault on democracy of the country. Javadekar also spoke of facilitating the party men who were jailed during the Emergency announced on June 25, 1975, by the Indira Gandhi-led Congress regime. Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also …

India remembers Emergency as dark period during which every institution was subverted: Modi
6 years, 8 months ago

India remembers Emergency as dark period during which every institution was subverted: Modi

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, recalled the Emergency period and said that the country remembers it as a dark period during which every institution was subverted and an atmosphere of fear was created. Meanwhile, recalling the period of the Emergency, Union Minister Arun Jaitley, on Monday, published the second part of his three-part series titled 'The Emergency Revisited'. “Having …

Textbooks should include chapter on Emergency to highlight atrocities: Naqvi
6 years, 8 months ago

Textbooks should include chapter on Emergency to highlight atrocities: Naqvi

India TV News  

Textbooks should include chapter on Emergency to highlight atrocities: Naqvi On a day that marks 43 years since the Emergency was imposed, Naqvi said it was the "biggest blot on Indian democracy" with hundreds of people "killed and oppressed in jail". Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that a chapter on 1975 Emergency should be included in textbooks …

Venkaiah Naidu wants Emergency to be part of school syllabus, calls it 'darkest chapter'
7 years, 8 months ago

Venkaiah Naidu wants Emergency to be part of school syllabus, calls it 'darkest chapter'

Firstpost  

Terming ‘Emergency’ as the “darkest chapter” in India’s democratic history, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday stressed the need for dedicating a chapter on it in the school curriculum. Hyderabad: Terming ‘Emergency’ as the “darkest chapter” in India’s democratic history, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday stressed the need for dedicating a chapter on it in the school …

Narendra Modi says remember ‘emergency’ to fortify democratic framework
9 years, 5 months ago

Narendra Modi says remember ‘emergency’ to fortify democratic framework

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed the Emergency, imposed in 1975, as the biggest blow to democracy and said its memories should be kept alive to draw lessons to further fortify the democratic framework and values in the country. I am grateful to those who struggled and fought against it.. “Emergency should be remembered not to brood …

Emergency in the newsroom
9 years, 8 months ago

Emergency in the newsroom

Deccan Chronicle  

Nothing energises a news room as much as a cataclysmic event. The political atmosphere had been thick with rumours of various kinds as events were moving towards a climax after Justice Jagmohan Sinha of the Allahabad high court delivered his judgment on June 12, 1975, holding Indira Gandhi guilty of a technical electoral offence barring her from voting in the …

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