Twenty-seven years after the then Rajiv Gandhi government banned Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said it was wrong. He claimed that he has no hesitation in saying that the ban on Salman Rushdie's book was wrong. Chidambaram, who was a Minister of State for Home Affairs under Rajiv Gandhi government from 1986-89, also said Indira Gandhi had in 1980 admitted imposing Emergency was a mistake.