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VOICE MAIL

        Sir,

        V Sundaram's article in News Today issue dated 19 and 20 December, 'A Samuel Pepys of Emergency India', enabled the people to know the things transpired behind the scene during the period of dark days, emergency in India from 16 August 1975 to 24 July 1976. The emergency was imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, B N Tandon, then joint secretary in the Prime Minister's office wrote the book PMO Diary II Emergency.

        People's civic rights were curtailed. The fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution became null and void. Great leaders were put behind the bars. The voices of the press were squeezed. The emergency helped Sanjay Gandhi, second son of Indira Gandhi to interfere in the administration. It is said that Sanjay Gandhi told the officials working under the Union Law Minister H R Gokale, that there was no law above him. He desired that his wishes should be fulfilled without any question. It is also reported that Indira Gandhi appointed one of her assistants to Sanjay Gandhi to get his things done by the Ministries concerned. Corruption started to emerge. The then Prime Minister expected the officials also to view the matters as she viewed.

        The Congress party disintegrated into many parts and the fight is still going on. Indira Gandhi's assault on democracy is the cause for the fall in the moral standards of everyday life in our country.

        Sir,

        It is really unfortunate that our Tamilnadu is blessed with a Chief Minister who gets into deliriums when a statue, which strictly according to his professed faith should be considered as just a stone and nothing more, is vandalised, while he keeps a deafening silence when human beings and religious institutions are subjected to savage attacks.

        Sir,

        With reference to the article by V Sundaram in News Today, I wish to state it is very inspiring and, at the same time, touching account of Hariharan's service to this country through the Defence Accounts Department.

        I, like many other colleagues of mine, am proud of belonging to this Service. Thank you, for giving us this opportunity to know Hariharan.