Between them they turned the administration upside down, used their power to settle personal scores, bullied the PM to do their bidding and gave the Emergency a dirty name. Dhawan, Mohammed Yunus, Rukhsana, Om Mehta and others. Having done so, she relied less on the PMO and more on what Tandon calls “palace guards”, which I presume meant Sanjay Gandhi, his wife Maneka and her mother Amtesh, R.K. She did this on the prodding of her son Sanjay with legal advice from Siddhartha Shankar Ray, supported by Dev Kant Barua and Rajni Patel. However, she did not take them into confidence when she declared the Emergency and put opposition leaders, including Jayaprakash Narain, Morarji Desai, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K.
It was to this cable of civil servants that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used to turn for advice. Dhar, Seshan, Sharda Prasad and Shyam Bengal. Tandon served in the PMO for over six years, including during the Emergency. Tandon’s PMO Diary II: The Emergency (Konark).
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