This diktat issued by Congress' Kamal Nath led government in Madhya Pradesh was seen as a stark reminder of the horrors of Indira Gandhi-led Emergency by many.
Congress' Kamal Nath-led Madhya Pradesh government has now issued orders to the health staff to bring one man for sterilisation or they stand to lose their jobs.
"Indira Gandhi had strangulated democracy, nobody was ready to speak against her. Then the students of Ahmedabad and Patna had started resisting", Ahwad had stated in Beed, Maharashtra.
Today is exactly 44 years since Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency on June 25, 1975. Yesterday, in the Rajya Sabha, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad made a passionate appeal to bring back the “Old India.”