Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi 'a mistake', says Rahul Gandhi Rahul claimed that there was a fundamental difference between what happened during the emergency, which 'was wrong' and what is happening now. | 3 March 2021 8:59 AM GMT New Delhi: Recalling the days of Emergency of 1975, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Kaushik Basu, a professor at the Cornell University in the US and India's former chief economic advisor stated that the Emergency that was imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi was a "mistake". Gandhi was quoted as saying "I think that was a mistake. Absolutely, that was a mistake. And my grandmother (Indira Gandhi) said as much. (But) the Congress at no point attempted to capture India's institutional framework... frankly, it does not even have that capability,"