So there were several root causes and reasons actually. But this High Court judgement declaring Indira Gandhi's seat to be null and void, and the slogans of JP Narayan, basically became the trigger point because of which the emergency was declared. Or you may say that they become the excuses for Indira Gandhi, for justifying declaring an emergency. Friends, if you like the topic for this video, then I'd say that you should definitely check out my podcast Maha Bharat on Spotify. I'll put the link to it in the description below. There, I make podcasts on similar topics. What happened in the next NUMBER_TOKEN years is historic in itself. This is known as the Darkest Period of Indian Democracy. The Fundamental Rights of the people was taken away. And the people continuing to protest, were arrested. More than NUMBER_TOKEN innocent people were arrested. Many opposition leaders and activists go underground during this period. The elections were delayed. Several organisations like RSS and Jamaat-e-Islami were banned. Several communist leaders were arrested. In fact, several congress leaders who were speaking out against the emergency, who were against Indira Gandhi, were made to resign from the party position and they were also arrested. Another scary thing at the time was the Mass Sterilization Program. Initiated by Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi. To reduce the population of the country, the government sterilised some men forcefully in an unsafe manner. Interestingly friends, in some people's opinion, there were some positive changes in the country as well. It is said that during the emergency, the trains were always on time. Everyone was punctual and the businesses ran efficiently. Perhaps a very simple reason for this was that the people living through emergency had also lived through the years preceding it. As I said, the inflation was terrible then. There were regular protests, and strikes were common in railways. So obviously, after the emergency was declared and all the protests and movements were stopped, there were no strikes and the trains were on time. And the industries worked efficiently as well. This is the reason why some industrialists like J.R.D. Tata gave positive comments regarding the emergency. Although later, he did change his opinion about it. On NUMBER_TOKENst March NUMBER_TOKEN, the emergency finally gets called off and elections are held. Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi, both lose their seats and the Janata Party came into power for the first time. This was the first time that a party other than Congress formed government in India. It's another story that this government doesn't last long and elections were held again in NUMBER_TOKEN and in NUMBER_TOKEN, Indira Gandhi came into power again. But this time around, her economic policies had changed a lot. Perhaps she had learnt her lesson. And her economics became a bit more right-leaning. More capitalist oriented. But this is a story for another time. I hope that you found this video informative. Let's meet in the next video. Thank you very much!
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