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Time of India
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
'Those Who Imposed Emergency...': PM Modi's Scathing Attack On Congress In 'Mann Ki Baat'
/ Jun 29, 2025, 01:46PM IST In the 123rd episode of 'Mann Ki Baat', Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at the Congress, saying those who imposed the Emergency aimed to suppress democracy and control the judiciary. He recalled the hardships faced during the 21-month period, including the arrest of George Fernandes and suppression of student voices. Modi praised the courage of Indians who resisted oppression. He played speeches by Morarji Desai, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Jagjivan Ram to highlight the era. Marking 50 years since the Emergency, he said it was commemorated as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' to honor those who stood for democracy.#pmmodi #mannkibaat #emergency1975 #democracy #samvidhanhatyadiwas #georgefernandes #misa #indianpolitics #emergency #constitutionofindia #vajpayee #morarjidesai #jagjivanram #indiraGandhi #congress #bjp #toi #timesofindia #toibharat
Canada News.Net
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Canada News.Net
Emergency a warning against future dictatorship: Amit Shah
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday addressed a gathering at the first-ever event organised to commemorate 25th June as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' (Constitution Killing Day), pointing out that the Emergency was imposed on the day. Terming the imposition of Emergency in India for 21 months from 1975 to 1977, the Home Minister said, 'Bad incidents usually should be forgotten in life. And it is correct, but when it relates to social life and national life, then bad incidents should be remembered forever, so that the youth and teenagers of the country are cultured, organised, ready to defend, and ensure that such bad incidents are never repeated again.' Shah said with this thought in mind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to commemorate June 25 of every year as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' and the Union Home Ministry issued a notification related to it. 'The manner in which the country was reduced to a prison during the Emergency, the soul of the country made dumb, the courts made deaf and pens of the writers were made to fall silent, keeping those things in mind and after giving it a thought, it was decided to commemorate today as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas'. This will bring awareness in the younger generations about the incidents that happened during the Emergency,' Shah said. He further said, 'Remembering the Emergency is not just knowing history, but it is a warning.' Union Home Minister said that on the night of June 24, 1975, the Emergency was imposed, and an ordinance was promulgated to implement a dictatorial mindset. 'The Constitution, which was crafted after deliberation and discussion involving 2,66,000 words by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and other framers, was effectively nullified, and the then Prime Minister destroyed the spirit of the entire constitution by just saying that - The President has declared emergency. The essence of the Constitution was destroyed with just one sentence,' said the Home Minister. He said that two significant events took place on June 12, 1975: the Allahabad High Court invalidated the election of the Prime Minister and barred her from contesting elections for six years. 'A state of shock spread across the country, though the Supreme Court later granted a stay on the order. Simultaneously, on June 12, the Janata Morcha experiment succeeded in Gujarat, bringing an end to the rule of the opposition party and establishing the Janata Party government. Alarmed by these developments, the Emergency was imposed on June 25.' Shah said that while the reason given was that national security was under threat, the whole world now knows that it was the Prime Minister's position of power that was truly under threat. Shah said that Jayaprakash Narayan's slogan of 'Sampoorna Kranti' had revolutionised the entire nation. 'The movement, which began in Gujarat, had reached Bihar. The government in Gujarat fell, elections were held, and the then ruling party was voted out of power. Subsequently, all opposition parties came together to form the Janata Party government, which served as a major warning for the then Prime Minister,' he said. Union Home Minister also said that by imposing the Emergency, the courts that granted stay were silenced, the newspapers were silenced, and even All India Radio was silenced. 'Around 1,10,000 social and political activists were thrown into prison cells. A Cabinet meeting was called at 4 am without any circulated agenda, and the Emergency was proclaimed. After thoroughly investigating the events during the Emergency, the Shah Commission stated that the acts of detention, forced sterilization, and demolitions had created an atmosphere of fear across the country that had no parallel elsewhere,' said Shah. 'Newspaper offices were shut down, 253 journalists were arrested, 29 foreign journalists were expelled from the country, and several newspapers protested the Emergency by leaving their editorial columns blank--most notably, The Indian Express and Jansatta. Their electricity supply was cut off, parliamentary proceedings were censored, the judiciary was effectively brought under control, and democratic rights were completely suppressed throughout the country,' Shah reminded. The Minister said that judges in the judiciary who delivered verdicts against the government were prevented from becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. 'Singer Kishore Kumar and actor Manoj Kumar's films were banned. Actor Dev Anand was barred from appearing on Doordarshan, and the films Aandhi and Kissa Kursi Ka were also banned,' he said. The Home Minister said that in the election held after the Emergency, for the first time in the country, a non-Congress government was formed with an absolute majority. 'It is important to remember that day so that no one in the future can impose a dictatorial mindset on the Constitution of this country,' Shah said. He said that during the Emergency, a mindset had developed that the party was bigger than the nation, the family was bigger than the party, the individual was bigger than the family, and power was more important than national interest. In contrast, today, under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, the Home Minister said the idea of 'Nation First' resonates deeply in the hearts of the people. 'This transformation has been made possible due to the struggle of thousands of warriors of democracy who spent 19 months in jail. Today, under PM Modi's leadership, 1.4 billion Indians are striving with commitment to make India number one in every field globally by the year 2047, and are moving forward with determination toward that goal,' added Shah. (ANI)
The Print
27-06-2025
- Politics
- The Print
1975 Emergency '50-yr-old thing'; India facing ‘undeclared emergency' since 2014: Digvijaya
Asked by reporters in Indore about the BJP's campaign against the Congress on the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, marked as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' ('Constitution Murder Day'), Singh alleged several people had been arrested in an unconstitutional manner and freedom of expression muzzled since 2014 when the saffron party came to power at the Centre. Then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, heading a Congress government, had imposed the Emergency in the country on June 25, 1975 on the grounds of internal disturbance. The proclamation under Article 352 of the Constitution led to suspension of civil rights, arrest of opposition leaders, dissidents and press censorship. Indore, Jun 27 (PTI) Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Friday alleged an 'undeclared Emergency' has been in force in the country for the last 11 years under the BJP rule, while the rights limiting measure officially proclaimed in 1975 was now a '50-year-old thing'. 'The Emergency is a 50-year-old thing. Under your (BJP) rule, there has been an undeclared Emergency in the country for the last 11 years. The right of expression of citizens is being snatched away. This is even more dangerous,' the former Madhya Pradesh CM alleged. The Congress veteran hit out at RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale for his comments demanding an apology from the Grand Old Party for imposing the 1975-77 Emergency. 'Why does he (Hosabale) forget that then-RSS chief Balasaheb Deoras had supported the Emergency?' Singh averred. The former CM claimed that for the first time in India's history, the culture department of the central government issued an official directive to run a campaign against the Emergency. Asked about the ongoing controversy in adjoining Maharashtra over teaching Hindi to students from Classes 1 to 5 in Marathi and English medium schools, he said, 'Every person has the right to teach his children in his mother tongue. This right is recognised in the three-language formula.' The former chief minister termed the recent anti-encroachment action of the forest department in the Kheoni Wildlife Sanctuary of Dewas district as 'inhuman' and alleged injustice was being done to tribals by destroying their homes during the monsoon. PTI HWP MAS RSY This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
News18
26-06-2025
- Politics
- News18
'Those Who Wronged The Nation Must Apologise': RSS Attacks Congress Over 1975 Emergency
Last Updated: RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said the Preamble of the Constitution was tampered with during Emergency and two words, 'socialism' and 'secularism', were inserted In a sharp and rare indictment, RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday called out the Congress – without naming it – and demanded an open apology for imposing Emergency 50 years ago. On the 50th anniversary of Emergency – now known as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' – the RSS decided to do something it rarely does by launching a fierce attack on the Congress. 'Those (Congress) who wronged the nation must apologise. Why haven't they? They jailed over a lakh citizens – young men, students, thinkers, patriots. They broke families, shuttered pressrooms, exiled dissent, and called it order. State turned on its own – and no one has yet said sorry yet," Hosabale said. Hosabale said the 'wounds of 1975" are far from healed and this was not only about one individual, the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. It was about a mentality that treated the citizens as 'subjects" who must be 'ruled", he said. 'Even if their ancestors committed the wrongs, they must seek forgiveness in their name," he said. Hosabale further said the Preamble of the Constitution was also tampered with during the period. During the Emergency, two critical words – 'socialism" and 'secularism" – were quietly inserted into the Preamble of the Constitution, he said. These were not part of the original document drafted by BR Ambedkar, nor were they the product of public discourse or constituent consensus, he added. 'The terms secular and socialist were inserted into the Indian Constitution during the emergency in 1976, a period widely criticised for authoritarianism and suppression of dissent. Critics argue that these words were not part of the original vision of the Constitution framers, including Dr BR Ambedkar, who believed in allowing the democratic process to shape India's socioeconomic character organically. Their inclusion, without broad public debate, is seen by some as undermining the Constitution's original spirit of ideological neutrality," he said. He said the terms were added through an amendment, passed at a time when Parliament operated under fear and not freedom. 'Socialism and secularism – these two words were not in the Constitution that Babasaheb Ambedkar gave us. They were inserted later. We must ask why," he said. 'Did socialism ever align with Bharat's civilisational ethos? It was imposed, not evolved. Secularism is in our nature, in our society, in our state policies. But we didn't need to artificially declare it." He added: 'It is time for a serious deliberation – should these terms stay in the Preamble? And do they dilute the spirit of our Constitution drafted by Babasaheb?" His words carry weight not only because of who said them, but because of how rarely the Sangh makes a direct political charge. The RSS, often meticulously distanced from day-to-day party politics, has now held the Congress accountable – not only for mass incarcerations and civil rights violations, but also for what it calls a theft of democratic and constitutional integrity.
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
RSS demands Congress apology over Emergency: Seeks removal of ‘socialist' and ‘secular' from Preamble; asserts not part of Constitution earlier
RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale (ANI) NEW DELHI: The RSS on Thursday urged a review of the words 'socialist' and 'secular' in the Constitution's preamble, citing they were added during the Emergency and not included in the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar. RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabole was addressing an event marking 50 years of the Emergency and said, 'Babasaheb Ambedkar never used these words in the preamble of the Constitution. The words were added during the Emergency, when fundamental rights were suspended, Parliament did not function, and the judiciary became lame." He said that discussions were previously held on this issue, but no concrete outcome was achieved regarding the removal of these words. "So whether they should remain in the preamble should be considered,' said Hosabole. Taking a jab at the Congress, Hosable demanded an apology for the excesses committed during the Emergency era which witnessed large-scale forced sterilisation, incarceration of people, and the curtailment of the freedom of judiciary and press, he recalled. "Those who did such things are today moving around with Constitution's copy. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Oldest Stars Who Are Still Alive And Often Forgotten Boite A Scoop Undo They have still not apologised... Apologise," he said. Earlier on Tuesday, union home minister Amit Shah had called the Emergency which was imposed on June 25, 1975, a 'dark chapter' and said that the 'nation never bows down to dictatorship'. Shah asserted that the Modi government has decided to observe June 25 as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' annually across the nation. The Emergency had altered key elements such as the Preamble and the Constitution, weakening the Judiciary and suspending democratic rights, Shah had said. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday had passed a resolution denouncing the Emergency imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi. The Cabinet held a meeting chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi and observed a two minute silence as a 'tribute to those whose constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights were taken away and who were then subjected to unimaginable horrors.'
