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Emergency a dark period: Modi in Mann ki Baat

The Morning Standard

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June 19, 2023

PM recalls oppression unleashed against people, saying the country should not forget crimes against freedom

- RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR

Emergency a dark period: Modi in Mann ki Baat

A couple of days before leaving for his US trip, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday sought to stir the political pot in the country alleging that the people who supported democracy were tortured during the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government on June 25, 1975.

Describing the ‘Emergency’, a “dark period” of India’s history, the PM said that June 25 cannot be forgotten.

Speaking at the 102nd episode of his radio broadcast ‘Mann Ki Baat, the PM said India is the mother of democracy where democratic ideals are paramount as the Constitution is supreme.

Taking a jibe, albeit obliquely at the Congress, the PM said: “We cannot forget June 25. This is the very day when Emergency was imposed. It was a dark period in the history of India. Lakhs of people opposed Emergency with their full might.”

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