Witness for prosecution : second unmasked

This is not a book on the internal emergency. It primarily deals with the aberrations calculate fly and deliberately introduced in the functioning of the government during Indira Gandhi's regime. It is un indepth study of the exploitation of power for personal and family ends under cover of populist slogans and lays bare the conspiracy of that ultra reactionary government to perpetuate itself in office. The book unfolds the dangers inherent in treating political power as personal property and makes out a case for the trial of Indira Gandhi on a charge of sedition - an exercise from which the Janata Government shied away. It is a matter of common concern that the most outrageous and dangerous violations of the Constitution, high crime against the Parliament, and the grossest forms of misdemeanour of which Indira Gandhi can rightly be accused should be found only in the commonplace offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the like when the real crime for which she should have been tried is sedition.

The book is a reminder to the people of India that democracy never dies but always commits suicide when the people themselves relax the vigil on those who are in fact the sworn enemies of democracy but masquerade in public as its advocates. It is amazing how the people of India could tolerate the massive building up of Nehru's progenies as the absolute imperative of our politics. The book unmasks how they acquired the lusty habits of living like grand Moghuls without earning sufficient honest money to justify their life style. What else is called corruption? Or is this family the "national" Brahmins who live on the Yajmans-the wretched poor of India?

This book is a study of the intimate connection between corrupt political rhetoric and brutalisation of politics in all its aspects. The thesis of the book is that no one, howsoever high or low placed, may use the facilities of liberty to impair them, and no person should be entrusted with power to invoke a right merely to destroy it.