Eminent constitutional jurist Fali S Nariman compared the risk that civil liberty was put to by the Congress government led by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi to modern-day threats from the BJP government in terms of ideology and policies, in a column for The Indian Express.
The BJP has ousted the Congress as the country’s national party, with their spectacular victory in Uttar Pradesh, he wrote.
Nariman, who is also a distinguished senior advocate to the Supreme Court, mentions anecdotal incidents that occurred during 1975 state of emergency when the Congress used to be India’s major party.