Indira's Emergency snatched away people's fundamental rights: MLA

"EMERGENCY should be implemented whenever a nation faces serious problems or during war situations. But, an Emergency was imposed in the country when then PM Indira Gandhi went ahead to save her chair," said MLA S Suresh Kumar.

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Delivering a special lecture organised on the occasion of the 50th dreadful year of Emergency organised by the district BJP unit here in the city on Friday evening, MLA Suresh Kumar said it was the Congress party that ruined India's independence by imposing Emergency in the country.

The country got independence on the midnight of August 15, 1947 and also lost its independence on the midnight of June 27, 1975, the day Emergency was imposed, he said.

"Allegations were made that efforts are underway to change the constitution by exhibiting a tiny constitution book everywhere in the country. It is sad to note that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi lacks knowledge that his grandmother snatched away the fundamental rights of the citizens of the country by imposing Emergency," he ridiculed.

He said just to be in power, then PM Indira Gandhi, who lost popularity, declared Emergency in the nation.