On 44th Anniversary of the Emergency in India, How RSS Betrayed the Anti-emergency Struggle – By Shamsul Islam

…RSS claims that it opposed Emergency promulgated by Indira Gandhi heroically and suffered immensely for resisting Emergency. But there are dozens of contemporary narratives which dispute and decry this claim of the RSS. We will be referring here to such two narratives by a veteran thinker and journalist of India, Prabhash Joshi and TV Rajeswar, former Intelligence Bureau [IB] chief who was the deputy chief of IB when Emergency was imposed.

They recounted the days of Emergency (or state terrorism) when RSS surrendered to the repressive regime of Indira Gandhi, assured her and her son, Sanjay Gandhi to enforce faithfully the draconian 20-point programme announced by the Emergency regime. Large number of RSS cadres came out of jails by submitting MAAFINAMAAS (mercy petitions).

Despite all this betrayal thousands of RSS cadres continue to get monthly pension for persecution during Emergency. The BJP ruled states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra decided to award a monthly pension of Rs 10,000 to those who were jailed during the Emergency period for more than a month and Rs 5000 to those who were jailed for less than a month. This rule took care of the financial interest of those RSS cadres who might have submitted mercy letters completing only one or two months’ jail term.…

https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/on-44th-anniversary-of-the-emergency-in-india-how-rss-betrayed-the-anti-emergency-struggle

SEE ALSO:

• #Emergency: ‘JP Told me RSS Had Betrayed Him’, Says Former IAS Officer Who Locked up Jayaprakash Narayan – MG Devasahayam with Ajaz Ashraf (Jun 26, 2019, News Click)
  https://www.newsclick.in/%23Emergency-JP-RSS-Betrayed-IAS-Officer-Locked-Jayaprakash-Narayan
• Did RSS support Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi? – By Prabhash K Dutta (Jun 25, 2019, India Today)
  https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/did-rss-support-emergency-imposed-by-indira-gandhi-1555569-2019-06-25
• The New ‘Emergency’! – By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ (Jun 25, 2019, Sabrang India)
  https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/new-emergency
• 44th anniversary of Emergency in India: What happened after national Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975 – By Saumya Trivedi (Jun 25, 2019, Times Now)
  https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/44th-anniversary-of-emergency-in-india-what-happened-after-national-emergency-was-declared-on-june-25/443053