"Later Downplayed As... ": Shashi Tharoor's Emergency Barb At Congress | Read

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said that the Emergency should not be remembered merely as a dark chapter in India's history, but that its lessons must be fully understood.

In an article on the Emergency published in the Malayalam daily Deepika on Thursday, the Congress Working Committee member recalled the dark era of the Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi between 25 June 1975 and 21 March 1977, and said that efforts undertaken for discipline and order often turned into acts of cruelty that could not be justified.