Question

With reference to the National Emergency (1975-76), discuss the following:

Four major responses of the public to the Emergency.

Answer 1

The public's reaction to the emergency had four primary forms:

1. Several political leaders expressed their opposition, but they were arrested and imprisoned.
2. Later, the public was peaceful because they understood that the government would end their protest and put them in jail and that the emergency did not involve the enforcement of fundamental rights.
3. Significant political changes at the national level were not well-known to the public because of the press reduction.
4. The people became tired of the emergency's limitations, so they voted Indira Gandhi out of office in the 1980 elections.