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inhumanly. People's right to
freedom was snatched away,
newspapers were left without
freedom. Courts were made
completely powerless. And the
way more than one lakh people
were put in jail and then arbitrary
Friends, in India, from health rule continued, it is difficult to
to social security, the country is find its traces in the history of the
moving ahead with the feeling world.
of saturation in every field. This Friends, this is the voice
is also a great picture of social of the former Prime Minister of
justice. These successes have the country, Shriman Morarji
instilled a belief that the coming Bhai Desai. He spoke about the
times will be even better; India Emergency in a brief but very
will become even stronger at clear manner. You can imagine
every step. what that period was like! Those
who imposed Emergency not
My dear countrymen, with only murdered our Constitution
the power of public participation, but also had the intention to
big crises can be confronted. I keep the judiciary as their slave.
will play an audio for you… in this During this period, people were

audio you will get an idea of the tormented on a large scale.
magnitude of that crisis. How There are many such examples
grave that crisis was… listen to it of this, which can never be
first… understand it. forgotten. George Fernandez
Morarji Bhai Desai Sahib was tied in chains.
Many people were
subjected to severe torture.
Under MISA, anyone could be
summarily arrested. Students
After all, the oppression too were harassed. Freedom
that happened for two years, of expression was also stifled.
the oppression had started 5-7 Thousands of people who were
years ago. But it has reached arrested during that period were
its peak in the last 2 years, when subjected to such inhumane
emergency was imposed on atrocities. But it is the strength
people and people were treated of the people of India… they did

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