Highlights The Emergency was imposed by Indira Gandhi for a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when curbs were imposed on the fundamental rights of citizens Rahul Gandhi said there is a fundamental difference between what happened during the Emergency, which "was wrong", and what is happening in the country now New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the Emergency that was imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi a "mistake", adding that what happened during that period was "wrong", but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress at no point attempted to capture the country's institutional framework.