'Unfortunately There is no Leader Like JP Today'

We are living through a new kind of Emergency––dissenters are ruthlessly harassed and laws upholding human rights routinely undermined, says M G Devasahayam, former Major of the Indian Army, retired IAS officer and social activist, on the occasion of 45 years of the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi's government close to midnight on June 25-26, 1975.

We are living through a new kind of Emergency––dissenters are ruthlessly harassed and laws upholding human rights routinely undermined, says M G Devasahayam, former Major of the Indian Army, retired IAS officer and social activist, on the occasion of 45 years of the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi's government close to midnight on June 25-26, 1975.