Mr Nayar says he had no intention of thwarting Mr Desai who, incidentally, never believed him or forgave him. When Mr Nayar confronted prime minister Morarji Desai with this, Morarji told him he didn’t go to receive even Gandhiji. Mr Nayar told her he hadn’t come to see her but her son Sanjay who was lounging nearby. Mr Nayar quotes him as saying “In my scheme of things there were to be no elections for three or four decades”. When she returned to power in 1980 she told Mr Nayar that she had made a mistake by declaring the Emergency.

Source: The Telegraph April 29, 2019 16:18 UTC