![]() ![]() ![]() My younger brother and I would be told to go out and play.īut the tense negotiations between JP and Indira Gandhi had their honourable human side as well. Some of the negotiating sessions took place in our residence. PN Dhar had known JP decades before he joined Mrs Gandhi's staff, and he had won the total confidence and trust of JP. The key interlocutors for the negotiations between Indira Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan were PN Dhar and my father on behalf of Mrs Gandhi, and my maternal uncle, KS Radhakrishna, on behalf of JP. The showdown between Jayaprakash Narayan and Indira Gandhi was a tense time for our family because my maternal uncle, KS Radhakrishna, head of the Gandhi Peace Foundation, was the principal aide and advisor of JP. Readers get a ringside view of what happened behind scenes before and during the Emergency) He was one of the closest advisors to her and her son Rajeev Gandhi. His father the legendary HY Sharada Prasad was Information Advisor to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi till her death. Technocrat Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad shares his personal memories of the Emergency days in this three part series he has written exclusively for IBNLive. This Thursday would be the 40th anniversary of those dark days in Indian democracy. Civil liberties were suspended and lakhs of people were sent to jail across India. Her decision had shocked the entire World. (The Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency on June 25, 1975. ![]() "Who does Indu think she is? My wife has changed her diapers!" JP thundered ![]()
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