Cabinet Passes Resolution Condemning Emergency

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning the proclamation of Emergency in the country 50 years ago and observed a two-minute silence to pay tributes to those whose constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights were taken away and who were then subjected to "unimaginable horrors".

- Mukesh Ranjan @ New Delhi

Reading out the resolution at a press briefing after the meeting, Minister for Information & Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "The Union Cabinet paid tributes to their exemplary courage and valiant resistance to the Emergency's excesses."

The government led by the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, imposed the Emergency on June 25, 1975. Last year, the Modi government announced the day would be observed as "Samvidhan Hatya Divas".