New Delhi: In the first ever de-classification by the Intelligence Bureau of nearly 3,000 documents of minutes of meetings of top police brass and the former Prime Ministers and Home Ministers since Independence, it is revealed that the then home Minister, K. Brahmananda Reddy speaking to the top police brass in 1976 — the year after the Emergency, claimed that through promulgation of Emergency, Indian government managed to “contain inflation,” “was able to further prosperity,” and its “timely promulgation” resulted in a “big change” in the life of the entire community.
As per the declassified documents, this was stated at the IGP conference chaired by the then Prime Minister, Ms Indira Gandhi. The documents have been presented in a 200-page coffee table book brought out by the Intelligence Bureau which offers to reveal a ‘’clear outline of Independent India’s national security history’’.
The push to publish such a book came from Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, who felt that intelligence and police community should “share” their history with people of the country.
