Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday paid tribute to those who resisted the 1975–77 Emergency and called the period a direct assault on the Constitution.
- Several BJP chief ministers and party officials observed June 25 as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' and urged young people to learn how the Emergency curtailed civil liberties and weakened institutions.
- The National Council of Educational Research and Training for the first time included the Emergency in a Class 9 social science textbook, stating that many Fundamental Rights were suspended, the press was censored, and democratic institutions came under severe strain.
- The coverage recalls that the Emergency was proclaimed under Article 352 by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed after the Allahabad High Court’s June 1975 ruling against Indira Gandhi and that the Shah Commission later documented mass detentions, press censorship, and a controversial sterilisation drive.
- Putting the Emergency into a lower-secondary textbook and marking the anniversary nationally could shape how new generations view 1975–77 and is likely to sharpen public debate over curriculum, civic memory, and partisan framing of recent history.