Morarji Desai News

It would be a mistake to think that the Emergency is an artefact of the past. The structural changes it wrought in the democratic structure are still apparent

Ram Nath Kovind became the 14th president of India on Tuesday. Here’s a look at the prominent positions held by him in the past

The global oil shock may have triggered the balance of payments crisis, but years of short-sighted policy led up to it

What some former prime ministers said in their Independence Day speeches in the past

Many voters in 1977 don’t appear to have seen the Emergency in the clear black and white terms we see it today

Arun Jaitley is presenting the first full budget of the NDA govt on 28 February. Termed as the make-or-break exercise, budget is a crucial event to gauge performance of any government. Here are finance ministers from the past on budget days in their respective terms-

Speaking about how different political groups came together to form the Janata Party governmentthe first non-Congress government in 1977 that also marked the beginning of coalition politics in India

The Congress (I) won 353 Lok Sabha seats in the 1980 Lok Sabha elections as the split in the Janata Party alliance worked in favour of Indira Gandhi.

The Congress lost the Lok Sabha elections for the first time in 1977 as voters gave a clear thumbs down to the preceding Emergency. Rare images of Indira Gandhi’s losing campaign and the voters reply to the Emergency

The 1971 elections saw Indira Gandhi coming back to power with her campaign to eradicate poverty. Images: the election posters, the heated campaigns and telephone operators disseminating election-related information