Cong skulduggery won't pay this time

In 1975, after the Allahabad High Court ruled against Indira Gandhi and declared her election to Parliament, albeit on a technicality, the Congress reacted with a viciousness that few believed a Government of democratic India was capable of. An internal Emergency was declared, all civil liberties were suspended and thousands of Opposition leaders and activists were jailed for the ostensible purpose of ushering what a by-now senile Gandhian dubbed “an era of discipline”.

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