After remaining in disguise and operating out of hideouts, Fernandes, Narain and their other colleagues were arrested from St Paul’s Church in Kolkata. On his attire during the Emergency days, he says, George would wear a Bihari dhoti and a keep a gamcha on his shoulder. Fernandes in handcuffs raising his hand in defiance became one of the most enduring images of the Emergency era. Fernandes, 86, is currently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and lives in Delhi along with his wife, Leila Kirbie. Fernandes fought the 1977 Lok Sabha election from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur while in jail as an undertrial in the Baroda Dynamite Case.

Source: Hindustan Times June 12, 2016 04:30 UTC