![]() However, as argued by this author in his article “ Was Emergency Inevitable?“, Open, 19 June 2020, both her principal secretary, Professor Prithvi Nath Dhar, and her information advisor HY Sharada Prasad believed that the Emergency resulted from a string of political miscalculations during three simultaneous confrontations against Indira Gandhi: first, the Nav Nirman Andolan led by Morarji Desai in Gujarat from December 1973 onwards second, the railway strike led by George Fernandes in May 1974 and third, the Sampoorna Kranti Aandolan led by Jaya Prakash Narayan and Nanaji Deshmukh from March 1974 onwards. Most people believe that Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency on 25-26 June 1975 to save her prime ministership after Justice Jag Mohan Lal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court set aside her 1971 Lok Sabha election on the grounds that she had availed herself of the services of a government official. ![]()
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