'Emergency no longer possible'

Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Friday said Emergency is no longer possible in the country as media censorship is not possible in the digital era and amendment to the Constitution has ensured that people cannot be detained without a cause.

The assertion of Jaitley, a key figure in the government, comes in the wake of senior BJP leader L K Advani's recent remarks in which he did not rule out Emergency in future, saying, "forces that can crush democracy are stronger".

Speaking at the launch of book 'The Emergency', written by senior journalist Coomi Kapoor, the Finance Minister said one of the good things Janata Party government, which came to power in the 1977 elections, did was to amend the Constitution to ensure that people cannot be detained even in Emergency without a cause.