Bhubaneswar, June 24: The Odisha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will observe June 25 as a ‘Black Day’ as it was on that day that ‘Emergency’ was declared in the country by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, informed party State unit vice president Biranchi Narayan Tripathy on Monday.

Odisha BJP to observe ‘black day’ on June 25

The BJP’s Odisha unit will observe June 25 as a ‘Black Day’ as it was on that day that ‘Emergency’ was declared in the country by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, informs party State unit vice president Biranchi Narayan…

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The saffron party will be holding demonstrations in all the districts and will felicitate all those who were jailed during the period, Tripathy said.

June 25 marks the day when Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared a state of emergency in the country.

Emergency was declared for a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352 of the Constitution due of the prevailing "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from June 25, 1975, until its withdrawal on March 21, 1977.

The order vested upon the Prime Minister the authority to rule by decree, allowing elections to be suspended and civil liberties to be curbed.

The Emergency is considered to be one of the most controversial periods of independent India's history.

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