Indira Gandhi's Emergency: Plans to Change the Constitution

During a difficult time in India's history called the Emergency, the leader, Indira Gandhi, thought about changing how the country was run.

She considered making a new kind of leader, like a president, who would be chosen directly by the people and have more power.

One idea was to copy the French system.

Another proposal, a confidential document, wanted the new leader to have even more power than the U.S. president.

Some advisors helped her with these ideas.

However, when the plans were shared and people didn't like them, she stopped moving forward with the changes.