Indira Nehru Gandhi8 January 1976
Parliament extends its term during the Emergency and national elections are postponed.
India · Government / Congress Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Parliament extends its term during the Emergency and national elections are postponed.
The Forty-second Amendment adds the words socialist and secular to the Constitution's Preamble and makes wide-ranging constitutional changes.
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