Emergency was for detaining political opposition, Jaitley reminds Congress

During the Emergency of 1975, Arun Jaitley spent more than 19 months in a Delhi jail

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday hit out at the Opposition for routinely using the expression ‘undeclared emergency’ to describe the present BJP government, saying they should introspect where they were during the Emergency under Indira Gandhi.

In a Facebook post on the 42nd anniversary of the Emergency, Jaitley told detractors that the first act after the imposition of the Emergency was the detention of political opposition, under the Preventive Detention Law.

He said that Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in 1975 because she was unseated by the Allahabad High Court order. Calling it the era of 'sycophancy suffering from a