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Indians must never forget Emergency, says Kuldeep Nayar

Speaking at a meeting organised to mark the 35th anniversary of proclamation of Emergency, the former MP said need of the hour was to reflect on the era when democratic values were under attack.

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Updated : Jun 25, 2010, 08:22 PM IST

Imposition of Emergency in 1975 eroded democratic values and public morality, and citizens should ensure that period does not revisit the country, eminent journalist Kuldeep Nayar today said.

Speaking at a meeting organised to mark the 35^th anniversary of proclamation of Emergency when civil liberties were suspended, he said need of the hour was to reflect on the era when democratic values and principles were under attack.

"Indians must never forget this day. It was the time when the country lost her independence after freedom from the British. About 1,00,000 people were detained without trial. The press was gagged. There was fear and people were afraid to speak up," he said, adding morality was ousted from politics.

Today politics has become just a power game, the former MP lamented. There is now a very thin line between wrong and right, moral and immoral in politics, he said.

"The civil society has to assert itself like it did in 1977 general elections (when Indira Gandhi's government was ousted)," Nayar, who spent three months in Delhi's Tihar Jail, noted.

The only negative aspect of the anti-Emergency movement was that people with communal and parochial agendas got political mileage and prominence after the draconian measures were lifted in March 1977, Nayar, a former high commissioner to Britain, said.

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