National emergency - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1)   The 40th anniversary of the national emergency is being marked on ______.

a. 23rd June
b. 24th June
c. 25th June
d. 26th June
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 25th June

Explanation:
The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency on the midnight of June 25th, 1975. Civil liberties were suspended and lakhs of people were put behind the bar across the country. Media was also censored. It is considered as the darkest period in the post-independence era.