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New Delhi : Union minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday recalled how the Indira Gandhi government had imposed a "Phoney Emergency" and "turned democracy into a constitutional dictatorship" about more than 40 years back. "It was a 'phoney emergency' on account of proclaimed policy that Indira Gandhi was indispensable to India and all contrarian voices had to be crushed," Jaitley wrote in a Facebook post titiled "The Emergency Revisited" - Part-I - the Circumstances Leading to the Imposition of Emergency. "The constitutional provisions were used to turn democracy into a constitutional dictatorship,"...