The Minister of the Interior Kasu Brahmananda Reddy achieved Prime Minister Indian Gandhi’s residence at 22:15. June 25, 1975. Within 15 minutes, he developed a letter with minutes of the earlier meeting between President and President and attached a proposal for the state of internal need to be signed by Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Until midnight, the announcement of an emergency outside.
June 22, 1975, the main Minister Andhra Pradesh J. Vengal Rao was summoned by the then personal secretary Prime Minister RK Dhawan in time for the verdict on the elections of the Indiral Gandhi of Raibareli in Uttar Pradesh. The stage was set in Delhi and Andhra Pradesh.
Other face
While it was midnight knocking and retention of political leaders elsewhere in the country, in Andhra Pradesh felt an iron fist emergency emergency.
According to Shah Commission, who asked for the emergency period, Andhra Pradesh had 1,135 Détenus on the basis of maintaining the Internal Security Act (MISA), 45 under the maintenance of foreign exchange and prevention Act (Cofeposa) and 451 according to the defensive and internal security of India rules).
These figures also show that the onslaught of emergency were felt by those who were outside the political framework-512 belonged to banned organizations (350 from CPML) and only 210 were political prisoners, while 413 represented criminals and anti-social elements.
“Bulldozing of shacks, interventions and forced sterilization occurred in the northern part of the country, but in Andhra Pradesh there was a number of meetings. In 21 months there was a death at 70 meetings. The events concerning the death and imposition of deaths that were concerned about the events concerning the events concerning the events that were about the events that were active. Svagr’s poet Varavary Rao on the eve of an emergency.
Within 24 hours of the declaration of the emergency situation, civil rights activist and lawyer KG Kannabiran began to receive calls in his residence Narayanaguda. The first challenge was the call of Pattipati Venkateswarl, who was the Secretary of the Civil Freedom Committee Andhr Pradesh, the raid to his home and detention. “The calls did not stop. Our home became an open house because PDSU students appeared in political leaders at all hours and nights and were looking for help. Either it was a call bell or a phone ring. We didn’t know any privacy,” says Kalpana Kannabiran, sociologist and lawyer who translated her father Kanbiran.
Killing
One of the first killing of the meeting was what became known as Girayapalli meeting. “Four young people, one of whom were a student of Regional Engineering College, Warangal, were taken in a police van to the Girayapall forest in the Medak district, tied to trees, tied and shot on the night of July 1975,” says Mr. Venugopal.
After the elections of the Organization for the Protection of Democratic Rights, she sent a list to the President BD Jatti containing 134 names of people who were killed at meetings, or what the organization called it “cold bloody murders”. Among them were Vempatapu Satyam, Panchadi Krishnamurty, Panchadi Nirmala Bhaskar Rao MALLIKARJUN and Neela Ramacandra.
Interior Minister Charan Singh admitted on the floor of parliament that 50 people died while detained under the Safety Act throughout the country, but only one of Andhra Pradesh.
Socialists, members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Ananda Margis and Naxalites were focused on Andhra Pradesh during the 21 -month -old emergency period.
The Girayapalli meeting followed the Chilakalgutta incident, where Ramanarsiah was picked up from the house in the old Malacpet and killed. This was followed by the case of the Yellland, when they were killed by Neelam Ramacandriah and Jampala Chandra Sekhar Prazad.
Months after the abolition of an emergency, an independent committee for finding facts under the former Judge VM Tarkunde was established with eight other members. This report led to the Union’s government to appoint Bhargava inquiry. “When Chenna Reddy became the main minister, he wanted the hearing to be held in the camera. It was not acceptable to Bhargava, who did not finish the investigation. Even the request for the interim report was not accepted,” Venugopal says.
Asking about a meeting killing Scottish, the death of so many young men has become statistics that is not recorded in the notorious history of emergency.
Demolition warning
In the first year of the emergency year (1975-76), Andhra Pradesh in the sterilization sector did not receive 1,65 163 operations against the targets of 2,94,200 set by the Indian government. Next year he exceeded 7,41,713 sterilization operations against the targets of four lacquers. However, there were 25 complaints about using force for FP operations.
Even in demolitions, the AP represented only 1.8% of the total of 75 complaints. Delhi, on the other hand, had 1248 complaints.
The Shah Commission closed an abundance in an emergency: “The vast majority of demolitions have been done by completely ignoring the suffering of persons in very modest areas of life, and the government could take immediate steps to correct the wrong and also ensure that the conditions in the colonies were safe, clean and comfortable.”
Published – June 25, 2025 12:48 PM
