50 years to India’s darkest period: How Sanjay Gandhi became the villain of Emergency

Sanjay Gandhi wielded unfettered power during the Emergency, which his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared on June 25, 1975. Despite having no position in the government, he made it his personal agenda to curb India’s growing population. This resulted in forced mass sterilisations – one of the excesses of Indian democracy's darkest period

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