![]() He called me at 10.05 and said that the court had decided against the PM but that the news was being confirmed. We expected the news to be in around 10.15 am. She was awaiting the news from Allahabad. VR came to my room as soon as I reached office. Bad news began to come in from the morning itself…. VR = V Ramachandran, joint secretary to the PM Seshan, N K, private secretary to the PM Sharada = H Y Sharada Prasad, deputy and later information advisor to the PM (1966-77) Salman, Haidar, director, later Foreign Secretary of India Ray, Siddharth Shankar, chief minister of West Bengal Palkhivala, Nani, eminent constitutional lawyer Morarji Desai, important opposition leader Kammi = Kamla Tandon, sister-in-law of the author Gujral, I K, minister for information and broadcasting ![]() GR = G Ramachandran, joint, later additional, secretary to the PM Prof Dhar = Professor P N Dhar, advisor to PM (1970-71), secretary to the PM (1971-77) īhaskar Ghosh, secretary to West Bengal Chief Minister S S Ray ĭhawan, R K, an acolyte of Sanjay Gandhi ![]() President = President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed We present excerpts of the events and his comments on the days leading up to the Emergency. B N Tandon, joint secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, used to maintain a diary of the daily events, and which has now been published as a book. The Emergency, imposed on 26 June 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, ranks as one of Independent India's most infamous incidents. ![]()
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