Lok Janshakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday said he hoped that the coming generation follows the footsteps of Jaiprakash Narayan.
"We hope that the coming generation will walk on the steps of Jaiprakash Narayan," he added.
Indira Gandhi had declared Emergency in the country on June 25, 1975 after the Allahabad High Court and subsequently the Supreme Court found her election to the Lok Sabha 'null and void'. Formally proclaimed by then-president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the decision to enforce the Emergency was taken without the approval of the then-union cabinet.
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