Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday favoured the inclusion in school curriculum a chapter on Emergency imposed by the Congress government led by Indira Gandhi in 1975.
Participating in a programme here on Sunday to mark the 41st anniversary of Emergency, Mr. Naidu said, “I feel there should be a chapter on Emergency in our school curriculum to make the younger generation know the murder of democracy and how it was restored.”
Arbitrary arrests
Emergency could not be forgotten, he said, recounting the arbitrary arrests of almost the entire Opposition leadership on the intervening night of June 25 and 26, 1975.
“Emergency changed the course of my life. I wanted to be a lawyer, but ended up a politician, because of 18 months’ imprisonment,” he said.
