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Sebastian Paul
About the AuthorSebastian Paul
The writer is lawyer, former MP and a political analyst.
    Human rights are available to all human beings irrespective of the quality and purity of their conduct.Nation
    ‘Human rights available to all irrespective of conduct’, says...

    Our Constitution guarantees right to life and personal liberty to all persons.

    6 Nov 2019 3:27 PM IST

    Leader of the Indian freedom movement and veteran Socialist Lok Naik Jayaprakash Narain, who had retired from active politics, came back to the centre-stage, united the opposition and led the campaign against Emergency. His call for total revolution excited the campuses and the youth. The Congress led by Indira Gandhi gave in to the combined opposition assault. The Congress got only 153 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in 1977 against 294 of the Janata PartyNation
    When janta embraced the Janata experiment

    What was important for us then was the ignominious demise of the hated Emergency and the dawn of a new era.

    24 March 2017 1:40 AM IST

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