Transcript (Partial):
MEET THE PRESS
"America's Press Conference of the Air"
NBC News Sunday, August 24, 1975
Indira Gandhi
The Prime Minister of India

Moderator: Lawrence E. Spivak

Panel: Jim Laurie, NBC News
James L. Greenfield, The New York Times
Elizabeth Drew, the New Yorker Magazine
Carl T. Rowan, the Chicago Daily News

Open: Mr. Spivak: From New Delhi, India and Washington D.C., 
MEET THE PRESS brings you today an interview with the Prime Minister
of India, Indira Gandhi.

It will be two months next Tuesday since her government declared a 
national state state of emergency.

The Prime Minister is in a television studio in New Delhi.
With her is NBC correspondent Jim Laurie.

The other questioners on our panel here in Washington are Elizabeth 
Drew, James Greenfield and Carl Rowen. I'll start the questioning.

Madame Prime Minister. In your address on the state of emergency
you said, "The actions of a few are endangering the rights of the
vast majority." What rights of the majority were being endangered?

PRIME MINISTER GANDHI: A few people had created a situation of
indiscipline, which was leading towards grave problems of law and
order, and had they continued, I think we would have had anarchy
in this country.
Unfortunately these movements, which had started quite some time
ago -- they declared a plan of action on the 25th of June which would
have aggravated the situation.

MR SPIVAK: A New York Times story says that although you insisted
you were responding to a threat to internal stability, there were
many who believed that the only real threat was to your own political
power and future. How do you answer that?

PM GANDHI: I don't think there's any truth in that at all because 
everybody knows what has been happening here in the last year or so.

We had a movement in the state of Gujarat. We had a movement in the
state of Bihar. In Gujarat, the members of our legislative assembly
were threatened and intimidated and forced to resign. There was
violence. Students were not attending college. We had strikes.
In fact at all levels there was much indiscipline that even
government functioning was becoming extremely difficult.

(more to come soon)