JP MOVEMENT & EMERGENCY

JP MOVEMENT & EMERGENCY

By the beginning of 1973 Indira Gandhi’s popularity began to decline. People’s expectations were unfulfilled. Economic recession, unemployment, price rise and scarcity of goods led to large-scale industrial unrest and a wave of strikes in different parts of the country during 1972 and 1973,culminating in an all-India railway strike in May 1974. Mrs. Gandhi’s popularity among the workers was eroded further. The political situation was worsened by th…