Emergency: Not yet

In his column “Undeclared Emergency: We are like that only?” (June 29), Somasekhar Sundaresan says every political party in India has tempered with the Constitution and has weakened all the pillar of democracy— legislature, the executive, judiciary and the media. Specifically, let us see how valid is the charge of the Opposition about “undeclared Emergency”. In the real emergency of 1975-77, all leaders, big guns and the small fries throughout the country were jailed overnight. The Parliament had become a puppet, the judiciary had to be committed to the interests of the government and media was gagged. The cause for