Claiming that family planning was the true religion which rose above all religions, she said. “We are creating awareness about family planning and Maharashtra is doing a better job than other states but we need to speed up...It was only through family planning that people could look after their children in a better manner and thereby ensure the existence of their own religion.” Incidentally, in the run-up to the election campaign in February 2004, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in an interview to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express, on NDTV’s Walk the Talk, said that Indira Gandhi did think that the Emergency was a “mistake.” “Well, there is no way we can say that the Emergency was right,” she added, “...But there was a great deal of propaganda against Mrs Gandhi, deliberately done. And I think there were even some reports post-Emergency that went into details of the family planning programme which turned out to say that the problems were magnified. Yes, there were problems, but not in the scale that the Opposition had built up.”