In a seminar held in New Delhi, Home Minister Amit Shah shared his views on the occasion of completion of 50 years of Emergency. Describing this opportunity as an important moment in the democratic history of the country, he said that “When any good or bad event is 50 years, people start forgetting it. The memory becomes blurred, but we should never forget a black chapter like Emergency.”
According to Amit Shah, it was a fight for the time of emergency, which kept democracy alive in India and showed that the people of India never accept dictatorship.
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Democracy was strangled during the Emergency!
Home Minister Amit Shah said that during the Emergency, not only democracy was strangled, but the lives of thousands of families were also affected. He said, “Many careers were destroyed, people were stunned in jails and freedom of expression was taken away.”
Amit Shah said that the Ministry of Home Affairs had issued a notification on 25 June last year as ‘Constitution Hurry Day’, so that the new generation would be aware of this black chapter. Amit Shah said, “When generations change, it is necessary to organize a seminar on such subjects, so that people take lessons from history.”
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Emergency implemented in 1975 …
The Home Minister said that “India is the mother of democracy. Our Constitution makers have expressed the sentiments of the people in words, but the Emergency implemented in 1975 was a time when democracy was killed.” Amit Shah also said that “Except the dictator and his close ones, no one was happy with that era. That is why the country chose the non-Congress government for the first time after the Emergency.”