Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted today about 45 years of the 1975 emergency. (File photo)
New Delhi:
The sacrifice made by the people who fought for the protection of Indian democracy will never be forgotten, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted today to mark the 45th anniversary of the 1975 emergency, when the Prime Minister of At the time, Indira Gandhi, suspended constitutional rights and imprisoned dozens of opposition leaders for a Supreme Court order that threatened her post.
The emergency – which was imposed in June 1975 lasted until March 1977 – saw civil liberties severely curtailed and political dissent suppressed.
“An emergency was imposed on the country exactly 45 years ago. At the time, the people who fought for the protection of Indian democracy were tortured, I salute them all! The country will never forget their sacrifice” , Prime Minister Modi tweeted in Hindi.
“When the emergency was imposed, its opposition was not limited to only the political class but filled everyone with resentment. People were anxious to recover the lost democracy. Each citizen felt that something had been done to them kidnapped, “said Prime Minister Modi. in the video he shared with the tweet.
आज से ठीक 45 वर्ष पहले देश पर आपातकाल थोपा गया था। उस समय भारत के लोकतंत्र की रक्षा के लिए जिन लोगों ने संघर्ष किया, यातनाएं झेलीं, उन सबको मेरा शत-शत नमन! उनका त्याग और बलिदान देश कभी नहीं भूल पाएगा। pic.twitter.com/jlQVJQVrsX
– Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 25, 2020
Earlier, Interior Minister Amit Shah also targeted Congress and Gandhis in a series of tweets, claiming that “a family’s greed for power” turned the nation into a “prison” overnight .
“On that day, 45 years ago, a family’s greed for power led to the imposition of emergency. During the night, the nation was turned into a prison. The press, the courts , freedom of expression … everyone has been trampled on. Atrocities have been committed against the poor and oppressed, “tweeted Mr. Shah.
“Thanks to the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people, the urgency was lifted. Democracy was restored in India, but it remained absent in Congress. The interests of a family prevailed over the interests of the parties and the interests This sad situation is also developing in today’s Congress! “said the Minister of the Interior.
As one of India’s opposition parties, Congress must ask itself:
Why does the emergency mentality persist?
Why can’t leaders who do not belong to a dynasty express themselves?
Why are leaders frustrated in Congress?
Otherwise, their disconnection with people will continue to grow.
– Amit Shah (@AmitShah) June 25, 2020
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala responded to the BJP. “As a ruling party in India, the BJP must answer: why is its majority government described as a government of only 2 people and all others as mere kicks? Why the horse trade, the defections of mass and institutions capture his only legacy? Why is he obsessed with his vile hatred of Nehru-Gandhis? “he tweeted.
Union Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, in a series of tweets, attacked Congress for his “grossly undemocratic” behavior, which he said continues.
On June 25, 1975, a draconian emergency was imposed by the Congress government led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Key opposition leaders, including Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan, Bharat Ratna Atal Behari Vajpayee, L. K. Advani, Chandrashekhar and hundreds of thousands of people in India were arrested.
– Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) June 25, 2020
“In the end, the Indian people voted overwhelmingly against the Congress Party in 1977 in the Lok Sabha elections and even Indira Gandhi was defeated and the first non-Congressional government came to power in the Center,” he said. -he declares.
The announcement of the emergency was made on June 25, 1975, a few days after the Allahabad High Court convicted Indira Gandhi of electoral fraud and expelled her from parliament for six years.
During much of the emergency, most of Indira Gandhi’s political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored. Several other human rights violations have been reported. The emergency remains one of the most controversial periods in the history of independent India.
