Editing Dev Anand (section)

===Political activism during the Emergency in the late 1970s===
Dev Anand has also been politically active. He led a group of film personalities who stood up against the [[The Emergency (India)|Internal Emergency]] imposed by the then [[Prime Minister of India]], [[Indira Gandhi]].<ref>{{cite news |date=29 June 2015 |title=Recalling the Emergency years |work=The Indian Express |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/recalling-the-emergency-1975-77-the-emergency-at-work/ |access-date=14 June 2018}}</ref> He actively campaigned against her with his supporters in the Indian parliamentary elections in 1977. He also formed a party called the ''National Party of India'', which he later disbanded.<ref>Joseph, Manu (20 May 2007). [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/How-Indians-Protest/articleshow/2061978.cms "How Indians Protest"]. ''The Times of India''.  Retrieved 10 November 2018.</ref>