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The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency across the country by citing internal and external threats to the country.
If the emergency has to be extended for more than three years, it can only be done by a Constitution of India constitutional amendment, as has happened in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. During such emergency, the President can take over the entire work of the executive, and the Governor administers the state in the name of the President.
The Emergency era had been widely unpopular, and the 42nd Amendment was the most controversial issue. The clampdown on civil liberties and widespread abuse of human rights by police angered the public. The Janata Party which had promised to "restore the Constitution to the condition it was in before the Emergency", won the 1977 general elections.
Such an emergency was declared in India in 1962 (Indo-China war), 1971 (Indo-Pakistan war), [30] and 1975 to 1977 (declared by Indira Gandhi). Under Article 352 of the India constitution, the president can declare such an emergency only on the basis of a written request by the cabinet of ministers headed by the prime minister. Such a ...
Emergency Provisions are contained in Part Eighteen of the Constitution of India. The President of India has the power to impose emergency rule in any or all the Indian states if the security of part or all of India is threatened by "war or external aggression or armed rebellion".
Under his leadership, India is poised to become a 21st-century economic powerhouse, ... Building modern India. Much as China did more than three decades ago, India is beginning a massive ...
The Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Thirty-eighth Amendment) Act, 1975, made the declaration of "The Emergency" final and conclusive. In particular it codified and enlarged the State's power to remove fundamental rights from its citizens during states of emergency. [1]
Low-budget Indian airline Akasa Air announced on Thursday an order of 150 Boeing 737 Max aircrafts, Boeing’s first order since a ripped fuselage on a 737 Max 9 model forced the emergency landing ...