Politics After Emergency

After ending the dark period of democracy, the Lok Sabha election was announced. In the 1977 Lok Sabha election, the opposition started a campaign with the slogan of “Save Democracy”. This slogan gained public sentiments as every citizen faced the consequences of the emergency. Here are the major incidents related to the political Emergency as mentioned below.

Lok Sabha Election 1977

After 18 months of the Emergency period, the government announced the Lok Sabha election in January 1977. For this announcement, so many political leaders and activists were released from jail. Major opposition parties came together under the Janata Party which was led by J. Narayan. Some congress leaders also joined his party who were against the Emergency.

The Janata Party started to contest the Lok Sabha election on the drawbacks of the Emergency. He made it as a referendum and said that this Emergency was non-democratic in nature. Mr. Narayan became the face of the democracy restoration. In the Lok Sabha election in 1977, the Congress party lost the election. With its allies, the Janata Party secured 330 seats and formed the government.

So many violent protests happened during the election time specifically in north India. Congress lost so many seats in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Odisha but well performed in South India. For this election, middle caste people of north India moved away from Congress and showed their support to the Janata Party.

Politics after Emergency is a subpart of the Class 12 Political Science Chapter 6 which is known as the crisis of the democratic order. Politics After Emergency talks about the strengths and weaknesses of the Indian Democracy. It also showed that it is impossible to remove democracy from India. Politics after the Emergency was a transition stage from where people lost their faith in the ruling party and searched for an alternative face.

In this article, we are going to discuss Class 12 Political Science Chapter 6 subpart the Politics after Emergency in detail.