President Pranab Mukherjee’s just released book ‘The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years’ is now the talk of political fraternity. The book which has many less-known and interesting things about Indira’s era naturally grabbing all the attention.
Served as junior minister in Indira’s government, Pranab took potshots at then opposition leader late Jayaprakash Narayan and dubbed JP’s movement as ‘directionless’ in his latest book. Pranab didn’t stop there. He event took jibe at Indira’s period and stated that the 1975 emergency as ‘avoidable event’.
In the book, Pranab said, ‘Congress and Indira Gandhi had to pay a heavy price for this misadventure.’ Pranab da disclosed that Indira Gandhi was not aware of the Constitutional provisions allowing for declaration of Emergency that was imposed in 1975. ‘it was Siddartha Shankar Ray who led her into the decision,’ corroborated Pranab.
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