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S Jaishankar on Sunday reminded about his UPSC visit, stating that his interview for the exam, in Delhi, the Emergency was removed on the same day – 21 March 1977.
“(1977) Election results were coming from the previous day … The feeling of defeat of the emergency rule was understanding. In a way, which I got through interview,” said Jaishankar.
The 21 -month emergency was imposed on 25 June 1975 and was lifted on 21 March 1977.
Jaishankar shared her experience, addressing a fresh batch gathering of entry for civil services, which was said to be the iconic UPSC exam as ‘Agni Pariksha’ (Trial by Fire).
Jaishankar shared takeaways with his UPSC interview
Eam, who is now 70 years old, said that his 22-year-old returned from interview with two major takeaets-The importance of communication in the pressure and that important people could live in “bubbles”.
“I was interviewed on March 21, 1977. The day was when the Emergency was canceled.
Jaishankar said, in the interview, he was asked about the 1977 elections – India’s fist after the Emergency.
Citing his association with JNU as a student and his subject of political science, the EAM reminded, “I was lucky.”
“We participated in the 1977 election campaign. We all went there and worked for the Emergency defeat,” Jayashankar said.
So, in response, “I forgot that I was in an interview”, and at that moment, “my communication skills came together somehow,” he said.
And, secondly he said, he learned that day, this “bubbles of Lutyens”.
“These people were really surprised, they could not assume that it was an electoral outcome, while for us, normal students, we could see that there was a wave against the Emergency,” the EAM recalled the interview experience.
Describing the challenge of explaining to those people that “associated with the government and sympathy”, without anyone, Jayashankar noted – was a test in the diplomat, long ago he officially became a diplomat.
Emergency
About a month ago, the Modi government marked the 50th anniversary by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to implement the Emergency, to recall the events held across the country that its leaders had called a “dark chapter” in Indian democracy.
The Janata Party, a alliance of opposition leaders, won the 1977 elections, defeated Indira Gandhi, and Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister.
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