Did Rajnath Singh just try to copy Indira Gandhi's strategy?

November 27, 2015 13:44

Some academics and lawyers are seeing in home minister Rajnath Singh's comments on the Constitution an effort to borrow a leaf out of Indira Gandhi's book.

"They (the NDA government) are doing exactly what Indira Gandhi did during the Emergency: use the Constitution to send a message about her politics," said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, political scientist and the president of the Centre for Policy Research.

"She made the mistake of wanting to use the Constitution as the touchstone of her ideology; now this government is making the same mistake." Read more

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