🚨 99% of Indian Gen Z doesn’t know this
After Indira Gandhi lost the 1977 election following the Emergency, she was arrested and jailed by the Janata government
On December 20, 1978, two Youth Congress workers, Bholanath Pandey and Devendra Pandey, hijacked an Indian Airlines plane carrying 126 passengers
Their demand?
Release Indira Gandhi from jail and withdraw the cases against her son, Sanjay Gandhi
The two claimed to be “non-violent Gandhians” and demanded that the authorities negotiate with them. They even demanded that Prime Minister Morarji Desai resign
After around 13 hours, they surrendered
The shocking part came later
When Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980, the cases against the two hijackers were dropped. Bholanath Pandey was then given a Congress ticket and became an MLA
And yes, this same Bholanath Pandey contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election on a Congress ticket from Salempur.