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Hans India
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Women, youth must enter politics in large numbers, says Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad: Union Minister Kishan Reddy on Wednesday took part in the 'Mock Parliament session' held at KMIT on the occasion of 50 years of Congress Emergency by state BJP Mahila Morcha. Speaking on the occasion, he said in the future, there was a need for youth and women to enter politics in large numbers in the country. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspiration was to introduce moral and righteous politics and reminded that Modi had called for one lakh youth across the country to enter into politics. 'The young men and women who participated in this mock parliament should rise to the level of having to argue in Parliament in the future. The Indian Constitution is the best one in the world. In many countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, internal crises have arisen in those countries due to the violation of the constitution and suppression of democracy with military regimes. In India, we are implementing the constitution framed by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. However, in 1975, during the rule of Indira Gandhi, the Constitution was set aside, civil rights were suppressed, and freedom of the press was taken away, and Emergency was imposed. On that day, without discussing it in the cabinet, the President was forced to sign it at midnight and lakhs of people were arrested before dawn. Among those arrested were Jayaprakash Narayan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, V. Rama Rao, Venkaiah Naidu and Bandaru Dattatreya. We are organizing this mock parliament with the intention of making today's generation aware of the anti-democratic actions that took place during the Emergency,' he said. Reddy recalled during the rule of Indira Gandhi, when the problems of corruption and unemployment increased exponentially, Navnirman Samiti was formed in Gujarat and Bihar and added that a large-scale movement was launched by students against the Emergency and added that the police caned them. He recalled that in 1971, Socialist leader Raj Narayan, who lost the Lok Sabha elections, filed a case in the Allahabad High Court with evidence alleging that Indira Gandhi had engaged in electoral corruption and misused the power machinery. Indira Gandhi brought a new ordinance and postponed the elections in the name of internal crisis in the country. 'The elections that were supposed to be held once every five years were postponed for another year and an emergency was imposed. On that day, many Vidyarthi Parishad and Jana Sangh activists, women's groups, youth groups, reporters, and politicians in Hyderabad city were lathicharged and arrested under the MISA Act. The Indira Gandhi government violated the constitutional rights of the people who claimed that they had the right to speak out against the Emergency. After the elections in 1977, when the Emergency was lifted, only a few of those arrested were released. Later, the Janata Party, formed under the leadership of Jayaprakash Narayan, came forward to protect the country's democracy. In that election, all the ministers of the Indira Gandhi government were defeated and the Janata Party won through a silent revolution of the people,' he recalled.
United News of India
25-06-2025
- Politics
- United News of India
Will Congress apologise for strangling Constitution during Emergency: BJP MP Prasad
Mumbai, June 25 (UNI) Senior BJP leader and former Union minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, today recounted the atrocities committed during the Emergency in 1975, saying that the Congress had turned the entire country into a prison and tortured opposition activists during the period and sought to know will its leaders apologise for the same. Addressing a press conference here organised to commemorate 50 years of the Emergency, he said that one-and-a-half lakh people were arrested across the country during the Emergency, including all the leaders of the major opposition parties like Jan Sangh and Samajwadi Party. Among them was Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan who was kept in jail in Haryana, he recalled and said that Morarji Desai was also kept in the same jail. No one was allowed to meet the two leaders, he said. RSS volunteers and Jana Sangh workers were physically tortured in jail, he alleged. Prasad further alleged that the Constitution was strangled by making several amendments during the Emergency and wondered will Congress leaders apologise for turning the entire country into a prison and torturing opposition activists during the Emergency, and for forcibly performing sterilisation surgeries and atrocities on the common people. He said that 253 journalists were arrested during the Emergency, out of them, 110 journalists were arrested under the MISA Act, 110 under the Protection of Information Act and 33 were arrested under other serious offences, he added. UNI SP SS
United News of India
25-06-2025
- Politics
- United News of India
Shah releases book on Emergency on Samvidhan Hatya Diwas
New Delhi, June 25 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah today released a book, titled 'The Emergency Diaries - Years that Forged a Leader', a compilation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's experiences during the anti-Emergency movement, at an event to mark 'Savidhan Hatya Diwas'. In his address, Shah said this book mentions Narendra Modi's work as a young Sangh Pracharak during the Emergency, how he fought by remaining underground during the 19-month-long movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan and Nanaji Deshmukh, a Home Ministry statement said. The book details how he went to the homes of people jailed under the MISA Act and talked to their families and arranged for their treatment. The book describes Modi distributed many newspapers published secretly in markets, squares, among students and women, and that he led the struggle as a 25-year-old youth of Gujarat, Shah said. He said that Modi used to work underground at that time, sometimes as a saint, sometimes as a Sardarji, sometimes as a hippie, sometimes as an incense stick seller or sometimes as a newspaper seller. "The Emergency was imposed to re-instate dynastic politics, but Modi went door-to-door, village-to-village and city-to-city to protest against it, and finally he uprooted the dynastic politics from the entire country in 2014," the Home Minister said. He said that there are five chapters in this book on media censorship, government repression, the struggle of the Sangh and Jansangh, description of the victims of the Emergency and from dictatorship to public participation. Shah appealed to the youth of the country to read this book so that they can know that the youth who fought against the dictatorship in his early days is the same youth who is strengthening the roots of democracy in this country, and he is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Present on the occasion were Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta among others.
