The Congress party in Kerala on Thursday (July 10, 2025) appeared to struggle to stay clear of Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s controversial article that blamed late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son, Sanjay Gandhi, for the “unspeakable cruelty”, including forced vasectomy and slum demolitions, in New Delhi, during the Emergency.
Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan sidestepped questions from reporters about whether the Congress deemed Mr. Tharoor’s bid to rake up the Emergency’s “dark past” was a wilful act of dissidence aimed at putting the party’s national and State leadership on the defensive ahead of the crucial local body polls in 2025 and the Assembly elections in 2026 in Kerala.
