Mrs. Indira Gandhi and National Emergency: How the Emergency altered India‘s Political Dynamics

The declaration of National Emergency in 1975 was more than just the result of an action of an audacious Prime Minister. There is no doubt that the determination of Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi played a decisive role in spurring the turmoil, however, there were deep-seated reasons for that political hiccup in Indian politics. One of the main reasons was the attaining of absolute majority in the lower house of the Parliament of India and as a result, she became an uncrowned monarch of Indian politics and an undisputed leader in the ruling Congress party between the years 1967 and 1971. After 44 years of declaration of emergency in the country certain authoritarian trends are again being witnessed in the Indian political system of the present day because of again the majority in the LokSabha. This research paper has adopted a descriptive analysis with the help of secondary sources for analysing the objectives of this paper. This paper has explained the rise of Mrs.. Indira Gandhi to power and the proclamation of National Emergency in 1975, the timeline of emergency and the federal structure, along with the loss of freedom to the citizens and the suppression of rule of law.