Editorials

35 years after Indira Gandhi’s emergency

FOR what purpose prime minister Indira Gandhi’s declared internal emergency on 25th June 1975 after mid night and how the people of India opposed her reign of terror, turning the whole country in to a jail and how finally she was forced to withdraw it are part of history. The anniversary of it is observed every year to remind the people to remind the people that the comprador rulers in India are capable of going to any extent to preserve the ruling system.
Even the worst of the imperialist chieftains like Bush, the imperialist comprador like Indira Gandhi and lackeys elsewhere have a style of imposing autocratic rule going to the extent of fascist forms of oppression in the name of democracy. Indira Gandhi went a step ahead. She announced that she was doing it to save the country from a fascist like Jayprakash Narayan!
On 25th June this year while the democratic conscious people are observing the 35th anniversary of this despicable part of post 1947 Indian history, we are told by the central and state governments and a major section of the Corporate media repeatedly that once again Indian democracy is in danger. But this time the villains are different, we are told. Monmohan Singh get nightmares from the Naxalites or Maoists now as he was getting earlier from the terrorists or Jihadis. So his government is enforcing all sorts of black laws from AFSPA to UAPA and encouraging state governments to come out with any number of black laws. Besides the strength of police, paramilitary and military are increased may times to deploy them for Operation Green Hunt. Salwa Judum and other exercises for a witch hunt of Nazalites using the bogey of Maoism. Not satisfied with deploying police, paramilitary and commando forces, the army and air force are also going to be deployed to turn the tribal inhabited areas of central India also into  killing fields as already Jammu and Kashmir and North east is turned in to.  
So the 35th anniversary of Indiara Gandhi’s emergency declaration was observed by the progressive forces across the country this time to expose the democracy claim of UPA government and to condemn the undeclared emergency imposed all over the country which is more pernicious than the 1975 emergency.