by Abhinabhas » Sat May 17, 2014 6:13 am
The Indian Emergency of 25 June 1975 21 March 1977 for a total 21-month period, was one of the most controversial periods in the history of independent India.
Opponents had alleged that Congress, had practiced electoral fraud to win the 1971 elections. Jaya Prakash Narayan had been agitating in Bihar for a change in provincial government, and increasingly sought to direct popular action against the Central Government through satyagrahas.
Narayan and his supporters sought to unify students, peasants, and labour organisations in a 'Total Revolution' to nonviolently transform Indian society. Congress was defeated in Gujarat by a coalition of parties calling itself the Janata Party(People's Party), and even faced an all-party, no-confidence motion in Parliament.
Raj Narain, who had been defeated in parliamentary election by Indira Gandhi, lodged cases of election fraud and use of state machinery for election purposes against Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the Allahabad High Court. On June