Emergency imposed to protect monarchy of one family: Union minister
Bhopal: While the state Congress was holding a hunger fast in Gwalior, the ruling BJP observed a state-wide Black Day, recalling the imposition of Emergency by the erstwhile Indira Gandhi Union govt on June 25, 1975.
Addressing a seminar on Emergency at the state BJP headquarters on Wednesday, Union minister for Jal Shakti, CR Patil, said that Congress's Nehru-Gandhi family wanted to rule as a monarchy, so they strangled democracy. He also claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi awakened the people by taking the truth about the Congress to the villages during the Emergency.
Union minister CR Patil said that Emergency Day reminds the people of the country how to fight the forces strangling the Constitution. "Indira Gandhi and the
Congress party
made many amendments to the Constitution for their personal interests.
There are certain conditions for imposing an emergency, but when Indira Gandhi imposed an emergency in the country, neither was the country fighting a war nor was there any internal problem," CR Patil argued.
"This emergency was imposed only because the Allahabad High Court declared Indira Gandhi's election illegal. Congress and Indira Gandhi saw power slipping from their hands, so the emergency was imposed. The Nehru-Gandhi family wanted to rule as a monarchy, so the emergency was imposed in the country, so that the Nehru-Gandhi family of Congress could continue to rule," the Union minister alleged.
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He further said that during the emergency, the Constitution was suspended and all those who were working to save the Constitution and keep the democracy of the country alive were put in jail. "Apart from the Jan Sangh and all the organisations promoting nationalist ideas, those journalists were also put in jail who wanted to bring the truth of Emergency before the people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was underground during the Emergency and went from village to village to help families of democracy fighters and to tell the public the truth about Congress," he said.
"Today the people of the country have understood the truth and Congress is heading towards its decline," CR Patil said. For political appeasement, Congress has tried to put one family above the Constitution. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi pretend to be the protectors of the Constitution by holding copies of the Constitution in their hands while taking oath in Parliament. But the Constitution that they hold in their hands does not contain any document," he said.
The Union minister alleged that Congress betrays the people, and therefore, the country no longer trusts the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family. "Shah Commission was formed after the Emergency. It was clearly written in the Shah Commission report that there was no constitutional need to impose Emergency. At that time, those who opposed the Congress party and its policies were shot. After 1980, when the Congress govt was formed at the Centre, this report itself was destroyed under a political conspiracy," CR Patil said.
He also claimed that Congress imposed its intentions on the country by adding the words secular and socialist in the preamble of the Constitution. "Indira Gandhi also destroyed the tradition of collective responsibility of the cabinet to impose emergency. As many as 8,555 people from Madhya Pradesh alone were put in jail. The democracy fighters faced torture inside the jail, they were not medically treated when they fell ill.
Many nationalist organisations were banned," CR Patil said.
The Union minister added, "In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowed his head to the Constitution and started the work to protect the Constitution, which is going on continuously. Under the leadership of the Prime Minister, work is being done to make the Constitution stronger."
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