Question
Explain any three lessons learnt from the emergency imposed in 1975.
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Answer
Lesson learnt from Emergency:-
- One lesson of Emergency is that it is extremely deffecult to do away with democracy in India.
- It brought out some ambiguities regarding the Emergency provisions in the Constitution that have been rectified since.
- Emergency made every one more aware of the value of civil liberties.
- Inability of the judiciary to protect civil liberties effectively during the emergency.
- Implementation of the Emergency rule took place through the Police and the administration. These institutions could not function independently.
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