Opinion | Who Decided To Impose Emergency? A Look Back As It Sparks Fresh Congress-BJP Faceoff 

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and other BJP members stage a protest at the Parliament House complex to mark the anniversary of the Emergency, during the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, last Wednesday. (Image source: PTI)

The Emergency – a 21-month period of suspended civil liberties imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 25 June, 1975 – sparked heated exchanges between the Congress and the BJP last week, with the latter launching a nationwide campaign to highlight its excesses ahead of its 50th anniversary next year. During the campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A bloc had made a big issue of the fact that, if the BJP-led NDA came to power with 400 seats – in