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Hon'ble Justice VN Khare, Chief Justice of India, with Lal Krishna or LK Advani, then Deputy Prime Minister of India, at the 5th Law Asia / LawAsia Business Law conference. Mr. Advani addresses Justice Khanna as well. L K Advan on Indira Gandhis; declared Emergency: "I'm somewhat odd here. In Parliamentary language, I'm a stranger in the house. This is a business law conference, and I am not a businessman and I am not a lawyer. I have studied law and as a person supposed to be a law maker, I have to be somewhat familiar with it. I am referring to that phrase when democracy was under eclipse and many of us who are in government were behind bars. That period I am referring to was 1975-76 when under one of the provisions of the Indian Constituion, an Emergency was imposed in the country. Tho