What are reason for declaring emergency …

Indira Gandhi declare Emergency in India.

Chain of events:

1. The 1971 War with Pakistan already caused a deceleration in GDP growth
2. Droughts, unemployment and oil crisis further troubled the Indian economy fueling massive labor and student unrest in the country.
3. George Fernandis, the then President of the All India Railwaymen's Federation organized an all India Railway Strike which led to massive arrests and unrest in 1974.
4. Mass protests were being led by Jaya Prakash Narayan (JP) against her corrupt and autocratic government.
5. The Govt. was increasingly trying to control the judiciary. On 12 June 1975, Indira Gandhi's election to Lok Sabha was declared void by the Allahabad High Court on grounds of electoral malpractice. She rejected calls for resignation and chose to go to the Supreme Court.
6. Indira Gandhi had her doubts that all this internal unrest was the carefully planned doing of the American CIA to unseat her.

JP called for a satyagraha and rally to press for her resignation on 25th June 1975. Indira Gandhi feared that things were getting out of her control and declared an Emergency on <i>June 25, 1975 which continued for 21 months till March 21, 1977</i>. The Emergency was officially issued by the then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed