Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set up to follow the same strategy, that the Opposition had adopted in 2014 to vote out Congress, for the 2024 general elections.
Contrary to claims that the situation in present-day India is worse than in the days of Emergency, press at the time was throttled and dissenters jailed
In Latin, ‘Ut est rerum omnium magister usus’ means “Experience is the best teacher”. The term was popularised by management gurus with
On 18 January 1977, Gandhi called fresh elections for March and released all political prisoners, though the Emergency officially ended on 23 March 1977. The Congress was handed a crushing defeat, its first ever since the country s Independence in 1947, by the combined opposition of Janata Party.