Blog-Series: Bewildering
Questions, Part-4 (Sanjay Gandhi; Emergency)
A Bunch of Bewildering Questions
Part-IV
4G.1: Sanjay Gandhi; Emergency
(1G=Motilal
Nehru, 2G=Jawaharlal
Nehru, 3G=Indira)
Question-4.1
Why is the sprawling national park in Borivali in Mumbai named after Sanjay?
Does a person responsible for getting all rules bent to set up his
factory needs to be commemorated?
Does a person responsible for getting Emergency imposed needs to be commemorated?
Does a person responsible for jailing thousands during Emergency, and their shabby treatment, needs to be commemorated?
Does a person responsible for Emergency excesses (including forced, brutal family-planning methods, illegal bulldozing of colonies of the poor) needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who freely indulged in gross malpractices, extra-constitutional methods, violation of laws during Emergency, and unleashing tyranny, needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who along with his vile pro-Emergency Congress goons spread the propaganda that democracy was unsuited to India needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who was reported to have discussed with top military bosses control of all districts through military deployment upon Congress defeat in 1977-elections post Emergency needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who was responsible for creating turmoil in Punjab leading ultimately to insurgency, Bhindranwale ascendency and finally 1984 Operation Blue Star needs to be commemorated?
Does a half-literate person, who never went to a college, needs to be commemorated?
Does an arrogant, power-drunk, ill-educated, ill-mannered, uncultured, reckless, vile, totally unscrupulous, corrupt person needs to be commemorated?
Does a person responsible for getting Emergency imposed needs to be commemorated?
Does a person responsible for jailing thousands during Emergency, and their shabby treatment, needs to be commemorated?
Does a person responsible for Emergency excesses (including forced, brutal family-planning methods, illegal bulldozing of colonies of the poor) needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who freely indulged in gross malpractices, extra-constitutional methods, violation of laws during Emergency, and unleashing tyranny, needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who along with his vile pro-Emergency Congress goons spread the propaganda that democracy was unsuited to India needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who was reported to have discussed with top military bosses control of all districts through military deployment upon Congress defeat in 1977-elections post Emergency needs to be commemorated?
Does a person who was responsible for creating turmoil in Punjab leading ultimately to insurgency, Bhindranwale ascendency and finally 1984 Operation Blue Star needs to be commemorated?
Does a half-literate person, who never went to a college, needs to be commemorated?
Does an arrogant, power-drunk, ill-educated, ill-mannered, uncultured, reckless, vile, totally unscrupulous, corrupt person needs to be commemorated?
Question-4.2
Why should Sanjay Gandhi's samadhi be located adjacent to Shantivan?
Judging by Sanjay Gandhi's terrible record, does he deserve a place near where India's greats had been cremated?
Why should the status quo on the inappropriate things have happened in the past during the rule of Nehru-Gandhis be maintained? Wrongs must be corrected!
Question-4.3
Why were those responsible for Emergency and Emergency excesses never brought to book?
Why did the perpretrators of Emergency and Emergency excesses remain respectable? Why did many of them go on to assume better and higher positions?
Why were the perpretrators of Emergency and Emergency excesses not prosecuted and jailed?
What has been lacking in our system that the above has been possible?
Question-4.4
Why shouldn't the political parties that merged to form Janta Party, and later demerged, and their the then political leaders, be held responsible for their utter failure, and non-fulfilment of peoples' mandate, to punish the perpretrators of Emergency and Emergency excesses?
Why commemorate persons like Charan Singh and others who later collaborated with the perpretrators of Emergency to gain power?
Question-4.4
Why shouldn't an "Emergency Memorial", like the Holocaust memorials, be constructed in New Delhi?
Emergency Memorial
Let people, especially new generation, know all about that dark period in India's history.Display pictures. Run videos.
Diplay prominently photographs and names in BLACK LETTERS of all those involved in declaration and excesses of Emergency.
Display also articles, write-ups, news-items from newspapers and periodicals, with names of authors, writers, jornalists who supported and wrote positively on Emergency. Let people at large know of the lackeys, and of those who "preferred to crawl, when asked to bend".
Display the same also of those who bravely opposed.
Commemorate 25/26 June every year as "Never Again Emergency Day!".
Issue postage stamps as reminders.
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