‘Apologise in your ancestors' name': RSS to Congress on Emergency
At an event in Delhi marking 50 years since the Emergency, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale demanded that the Congress apologise for the 1975 crackdown under Indira Gandhi's rule. He also called for the removal of the words "socialist" and "secular" from the Constitution's Preamble, stating they were inserted during the Emergency. Show more 03:03
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