Emergency resolution in Lok Sabha exposes anti-democratic thinking of Congress, says Amit Shah
Amit Shah on Wednesday hailed Speaker Om Birla for moving a resolution in Lok Sabha condemning the imposition of Emergency in 1975 by former prime minister Indira Gandhi and said it has exposed the «anti-democratic» thinking of the Congress which harmed the major pillars of democracy like «judiciary, bureaucracy and media». Shah also said that Lok Sabha remembered the Emergency, which was an «Era of Injustice» and expressed its sympathy to the poor, Dalits and backward people, who had to suffer the exploitation and atrocities of the then Indira Gandhi government, when the rights of the citizens of the country were destroyed and their freedom was snatched away.
The home minister said many sensitive amendments made in the Constitution during the dark period of Emergency expose the dictatorial mentality of the Congress which centralised all powers in one person.
«It (resolution) has exposed the anti-democratic thinking of the Congress which has harmed the major pillars like judiciary, bureaucracy and media, has condemned the cruelty of Congress in imprisoning lakhs of opposition leaders for more than one and a half year without any reason,» Shah wrote in a post on X in Hindi with hashtag #EmergencyHorrors.
He said a message has also been given to spread awareness so that the Congress thinking that ended parliamentary democracy is never repeated.
The home minister said the Lok Sabha also expressed regret at how the entire country was turned into a prison during the Emergency and how the Indira Gandhi government
