I don't have the confidence Emergency cannot happen again: Advani

June 18, 2015 10:12

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency on June 25, L K Advani, senior BJP leader, its founding father and now a member of its Margdarshak Mandal, has struck a note of caution.

India's political system is still to come to terms with the Emergency and a similar suspension of civil liberties could not be ruled out in the future, he said in an interview to The Indian Express.

"At the present point of time, the forces that can crush democracy, notwithstanding the constitutional and legal safeguards, are stronger," he said.

In the years since the Emergency in 1975-77, "I don't think anything has been done that gives me the assurance that civil liberties will not be suspended or destroyed again. Not at all," said Advani.

"Of course, no one can do it easily... But that it cannot happen again -- I will not say that. It could be that fundamental liberties are curtailed again."

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