Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ‘imposed an undeclared Emergency for ten long years’.
The Congress on Friday described the Centre’s move to declare June 25 as “Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas”, as yet another “headline-grabbing exercise in hypocrisy” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
June 25 was when the Emergency was declared in 1975. The Centre on Friday said that “Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas”, meaning a day to remember the “murder of the Constitution”, will be observed annually to pay tribute to those who suffered the abuse of power during the period.
In a social media post, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that on June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi, the prime minister at the time, had “strangled the soul of Indian democracy by imposing Emergency” by “showing her dictatorial mindset”.
