Those who got power after Emergency didn't punish guilty: Gurumurthy
RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy said: 'After the 2024 elections, Rahul Gandhi started displaying a copy of the Constitution and spoke of saving the Constitution. Didn't he know that his grandmother had 'suspended' the Constitution during the Emergency."
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