India going through undeclared Emergency now, says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday (June 25, 2025) claimed that the country is going through an undeclared Emergency as the "Sangh Parivar government" is trying to do away with the Constitution.
Mr. Vijayan made the allegation in a Facebook post in which he described the Emergency declared by the then-Indira Gandhi government in 1975 as "the darkest chapter in the history of Indian democracy." The CPI(M) veteran noted that this dark chapter has completed half a century.
He said the declaration of Emergency on June 25, 1975, was not a sudden or unexpected event but the "brutal culmination of years of authoritarian tendencies and the erosion of civil liberties in India."
Mr. Vijayan also said that the 50th anniversary of the Emergency serves as a reminder of the "horror" of the current political situation in the country.
"The country is currently going through an undeclared Emergency. If Indira Gandhi abused the Constitution, then today the Sangh Parivar government is trying to do away with it," he alleged in the post, which also carried a link to an article on the Emergency published in the CPI(M) mouthpiece, Deshabhimani.
Mr. Vijayan claimed that the Emergency is not merely a lesson in history for those who lived through it but remains a "burning memory of state terror."
The declaration of Emergency in 1975 was not a spontaneous event, but the culmination of tyrannical tendencies that surfaced in independent India. 50 years have gone by, and today we're facing an undeclared emergency under the Sangh Parivar regime, enforced through… — Pinarayi Vijayan (@pinarayivijayan) June 25, 2025
He stressed that the memories of the Emergency period must be preserved as a source of inspiration for future struggles and passed on to the next generations.
During the Emergency, Mr. Vijayan, a senior CPI(M) leader, was imprisoned for 18 months for organising "underground political activities" in Kerala. He also faced alleged police torture while in custody.
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