{"id":97905,"date":"2020-03-23T18:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=97905"},"modified":"2020-04-06T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:38:41","slug":"can-india-be-placed-under-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/india\/can-india-be-placed-under-national-emergency","title":{"rendered":"Can India Be Placed Under National Emergency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97936\" style=\"width: 669px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/india\/can-india-be-placed-under-national-emergency\/attachment\/what-is-national-emergency\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-97936 size-full\" title=\"National Emergency\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2020\/03\/what-is-national-emergency.jpg\" alt=\"Can India Be Placed Under National Emergency?\" width=\"669\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>A State of National Emergency<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is a National Emergency?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It is in the air that a National Emergency may be announced, one may call it gossip or a logical outcome of the current crisis challenging not just India but the world at large. But after the US President Donald Trump announced a national emergency for the United States, the focus is slowly shifting to many other countries on an impending and similar announcement. But can India be really placed under an Emergency? Let us look at the facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Only the President of India can proclaim the State of Emergency.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The President can&#8217;t do it on his own; he has to be guided by the houses of Parliament in this matter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The President must get a written request from the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">National Emergency can be proclaimed under provisions of Article 352 read alongside the 44th Amendment Act 1978.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In India, National Emergency can be declared only under the following circumstances:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211; External Aggression or War<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211; Armed Rebellion<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Technically India is not at war and neither there is an Armed Rebellion.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Constitutionally, India can&#8217;t be placed under External or Internal Emergency based on COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, if an amendment is passed in the Parliament and a Health Emergency be included as a provision, the same can be considered by the President after the recommendation of the Cabinet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Link:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/health\/just-facts-coronavirus-in-india\">Just Facts &#8211; Coronavirus in India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a National Emergency? It is in the air that a National Emergency may be announced, one may call it gossip or a logical outcome of the current crisis challenging not just India but the world at large. But after the US President Donald Trump announced a national emergency for the United States, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":98955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11315],"tags":[11748,11886,11888],"class_list":{"0":"post-97905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-national-emergency"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98956,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97905\/revisions\/98956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}