NEW DELHI: Leader of Congress Rahul gandhi Tuesday said the imposition of Emergency By then the afternoon PM Indira Gandhi was a Error but he added that Congress had never tried to capture institutions like, what he called, was happening now under the BJP-RSS.
In an interaction with the former chief economic advisor of GOI Y Cornell University Professor Kaushik Basu and the students, Rahul Gandhi, said that Emergency was a “mistake” and a “mistake”. “That was a mistake. My grandmother (Indira Gandhi) said the same thing,” he said.
But he said there was a fundamental difference between what happened during the Emergency and what was happening now. “Congress at no point tried to capture the institutional framework of India,” he said, adding that RSS is doing something “fundamentally different” by filling the country’s institutions with its people.
According to Basu, former president Pranab Mukherjee He told her shortly before his death that Indira Gandhi was worried about losing the ballot box, but still called for the 1977 elections because she wanted to “prove it.”
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