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On this day in 1975 Mrs Indira Gandhi stripped citizens of #India of their fundamental rights and made chutney of the #Constitution. Our #democracy became a totaliterian state. Darkness descended at noon. The free were enslaved or thrown into jail. #Emergency
Abu Abraham's scathing critique of the #Emergency
What happened during Mrs Indira Gandhi's Emergency? I drew on personal memories to write this piece:
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Thread on some #KeyTakeaways from #LokSabhaElections2019 results:
1. There was always a #Modi wave but the #LeLi Commentariat insisted it was an undercurrent against Modi and #BJP.
2. Losses in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh in 2018 were an aberration and not a trend. 1/n
3. Vote transfers do not happen between historically hostile parties. Anticipated vote transfer did not happen in #UP. SP-BSP #MahaGathBandhan was nonstarter.
4. Never mind the bunk peddled by pop political analysts. #India would prefers Government with single-party majority. 2/n
5. Mamata Banerjee underestimated Hindu backlash to her brazen Muslim appeasement and pandering to illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
6. She overestimated the ability of party goons to strike fear among voters. It took 34 years for LF to unravel; TMC less than 10 years. 3/n
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Kanchan Gupta
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Not an accusation. There was media coverage of Rajiv Gandhi's 'Blue Lagoon' holiday. INS Virat was indeed used, as were naval helicopters. India Today carried a lavishly illustrated story. indiatoday.in/magazine/india…
Excerpts from Anita Pratap's report on Rajiv Gandhi's 'Blue Lagoon Holiday' (Lakshadweep) published in @IndiaToday issue dated January 31, 1988:
I am sure @tavleen_singh would be able to tell a lot more. What I do remember is HY Sharada Prasad, then media advisor to Rajiv Gandhi, calling up CR Irani and 'expressing the hope' (Irani's words) that 'your irascible Assistant Editor (me) will not be writing about this'.
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Kanchan Gupta
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National Conference's demand for restoring posts of Wazir-e-Azam & Sadar-e-Riyasat in #Kashmir is untenable. #India came dangerously close to accepting pre-1953 in 1995 when PM Narasimha Rao said Congress was willing to concede "anything short of azadi".
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Narasimha Rao's offer to restore Jammu & #Kashmir pre-1953 status was surreptitiously made from Burkina Faso. Nobody got the sinister implications of "anything short of azadi" except LK Advani who raised a storm. Rao had to retreat. One of the many reasons why Rao hated Advani.
PV Narasimha Rao is least remembered for the enormous damage he inflicted by sucking up to America and letting Robin Raphel, Pakistani agent in Clinton Administration, walk all over him. It was she who was running #Kashmir affairs in alliance with jihadi separatists.
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A taste of how @narendramodi is putting systems into place to ensure a better future for #India & preserve the #environment . #ModiFor2019
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