02-18-2005, 01:40 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Trains ran on Time. Clerks came to office on time, but democracy disappeared along with freedom of the people during the tryst with dictatorship of Mrs. Indira Gandhi and her second son Sanjay during the <b>"Internal Emergency" of 1974, declared with the sle purpose of saving her parliament seat and overturning the judicial verdict of the Allahabad High court.</b>
The Emergency was a nightmare in the history of independent India. The press was gagged. There was censorship of press - something even the British did not do. Anyone who showed some courage to bring truth out was arrested and the press was destroyed. While some brave souls were struggling for largest democracy in the world, there were also some who crawled when only asked to bend. Some of the scums, termed as 'chamchas' included Professors in far away USA. The August institutions, supposedly watchdogs of democracy like the Supreme Court and parliament became lap dogs of a megalomaniac family. In other words, they became "commited" and "captive". Even the constitution of India got corrupted. <b>Two dirty words - Socialism and Secularism entered into the preamble through the infamous 42nd Amendment - ramrodded through a captive parliament.</b> The laws designed to prevent smuggling weere used to imprison people such as Balasaheb Deoras, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani, Morarji Desai and Charan Singh. Atleast 200,000 were arrested for no crime except for demanding of restoration of democracy. 85% of these detenues were members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Countless thousands were tortured in jail and countless houses demolished, scores dead in coustody, and a personality cult for the Nehru family was instituted.link <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Emergency was a nightmare in the history of independent India. The press was gagged. There was censorship of press - something even the British did not do. Anyone who showed some courage to bring truth out was arrested and the press was destroyed. While some brave souls were struggling for largest democracy in the world, there were also some who crawled when only asked to bend. Some of the scums, termed as 'chamchas' included Professors in far away USA. The August institutions, supposedly watchdogs of democracy like the Supreme Court and parliament became lap dogs of a megalomaniac family. In other words, they became "commited" and "captive". Even the constitution of India got corrupted. <b>Two dirty words - Socialism and Secularism entered into the preamble through the infamous 42nd Amendment - ramrodded through a captive parliament.</b> The laws designed to prevent smuggling weere used to imprison people such as Balasaheb Deoras, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani, Morarji Desai and Charan Singh. Atleast 200,000 were arrested for no crime except for demanding of restoration of democracy. 85% of these detenues were members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Countless thousands were tortured in jail and countless houses demolished, scores dead in coustody, and a personality cult for the Nehru family was instituted.link <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->