Calling it one of the deepest chapters in India’s democratic history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on the 50th year of the Emergency that no Indian would forget the method in which the spirit of the Constitution was violated and the voice of Parliament created the voice.
“Today is fifty years since one of the deepest chapters in India’s democratic history, emergency. The people of India mark this day as Samvidan Hatya Day. On this day, the values vested in the Indian Constitution were kept separate, fundamental rights were suspended, press freedom was extinguished and many political leaders, social workers, students and common citizens were jailed, “the Prime Minister wrote on X (East Twitter).
Smoting Indira Gandhi’s then Congress government for “holding democracy under arrest”, the PM said: “No Indian will ever forget the method in which the spirit of our Constitution was violated, the voice of Parliament is necessary and an attempt was made to control the courts.
The Prime Minister also talked about those who were “firm in the fight against emergency”. “These were people from all over India, from all areas of life, from diverse ideologies, who worked with each other: to protect India’s democratic clothes and to preserve the ideals for which our freedom fighters dedicated their lives. It was to ensure their collective struggle that the Congress government had to call for fresh elections, which they had lost from the burra.”
PM Modi also reiterated his government’s commitment to work together to strengthen the principles in our constitution and to feel the vision of a developed India.
Editorial in the Indian Express after emergency announcement.
On June 25, 1975, an Emergency was imposed exactly 50 years ago. Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister after the landslide victory in 1971, but her government was surrounded by a crisis after the crisis, such as the Indo-Pak war, drought and expenses during the 1973 oil crisis of 1971, hardship for the Indian economy.
On June 12, 1975, Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court convicted Indira for electoral misconduct and hit her election for Lok Sabha from Rae Bareilly. As the demand for his resignation increased, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of emergency late on the night of June 25.
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This emergency, which lasted till March 21, 1977, saw Indira Gandhi’s Congress government using provisions in the Constitution to implement comprehensive executive and legislative results in the country.
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