Targeting the Congress and its allies to “raise questions about democracy and constitution”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday spoke on the eve of 50 years of Emergency in New Delhi, saying it is necessary that the memories of emergency are not removed, so that youth can remember this challenge for democracy.
He said that a book by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be released on Wednesday.
Recalling that 1.1 lakh people were imprisoned in a 21 -month emergency, Shah attacked the Congress and its allies. “There are people who talk about the constitution. Which party they come from? He said,” Today they are with the Congress who were in jail during the Emergency. Whether it is social or DMK. Today he is sitting with the Congress and raising questions about democracy and constitution. “
He said that during the Emergency, many careers took amazing turns and ended. But that fight kept Indian democracy alive, he said.
He said, “We won the battle because the people of our country can never accept dictatorship. Our country has been the mother of democracy. Citizens would not have liked the Emergency, I am sure,” he said.
He said that the night of 25 June 1975 was the longest night as well as the shortest night of independent India. “The night of June 25 came after 21 months. Our constitution was made in more than two years, but the kitchen cabinet canceled it in a minute. It was the longest night as well as the smallest night in the country.”
Applying the Emergency as a conspiracy to change a multi-sided democracy in the dictatorship of a person, Shah said, “Just imagine the moment when you became the subject of a tyrannical within a day. You were a journalist or a student, but suddenly a threat to the country.”
Remembering the emergency period in Gujarat, when he was just 11 years old, Shah said that when the public was rejected, he used to work hard after one year compared to the rest of the country. “184 people from my village were sent to jail,” he said.
“When the Supreme Court said that Indirji could not vote in Parliament, he used the provisions of the Constitution to destroy the Constitution,” he said. “There was no threat to the country. His post was in danger. So, he imposed an emergency. He called the cabinet meeting in the morning and the cabinet was told about it.”
He said, “Democratic rights ended and the powers of the judiciary decreased. That is why we have decided to inspect Samvidan Hatya Day,” he said.
He said, “Tihar Jail had 4,000 Missa Detains, while the capacity was only 1,200. One-crores had forced sterilization. I remember Lata Mangeshkar also sings for Kishore Kumar, as it was later banned,” he said.
He remembered that when Jayaprakash Narayan was arrested, he said, “Destruction Kale Viprit Buddha.” JP also wrote to Indira Gandhi that she is taking wrong decisions to justify her wrong actions, she said.
Recalling the happiness of the people in Gujarat, when Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi were defeated in the 1977 elections, Shah said, “The Congress lost its former Heft after the Emergency. This is a lesson for political parties: whatever ideology is that to make the country great.
Saying that democracy was internal for India, he said that the Constitution clarified the national democratic views of the country in the country’s founding document.
“Democracy was born in our country. We had Republics like Vaisari. Our Constitution is the creation of this inner nature of our country. The roots of our democracy are so deep that any dictator will only harm its future to destroy it,” he said.
Saying that people, and not only the institutions, have the duty to defend democracy, they asked the youth to read the Shah Commission report, “This will motivate them to stand like JP against any threat to democracy”.
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