1975 - 1977 - The Emergency
The Emergency of 25 June 1975 %u2013 21 March 1977, was a 21-month period, when President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution of India, bestowing on her the power to rule by decree, suspending elections and civil liberties. In the 1980s the Bofors scandal hit the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer.