Watch the story of the Emergency of 1975

Little after midnight on June 26, 1975, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made this announcement on All India Radio: "The President has declared a state of Emergency. There is no need to panic." These words spelt doom for the fundamental rights that Constitution gave to the citizens of the country. All rights except the right to life were suspended.

The imposition of the Emergency had then evoked a nationwide outrage and triggered a mass movement which forced Gandhi to lift it in 1977.