NEW DELHI: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Samvidhan Hatya Diwas” reminder on the completion of fifty years of Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering of marking the day to cover its personal “failures and repeated lies.”Addressing a press convention, Kharge claimed that the BJP was rattled by Congress’s ‘Samvidhan Bachao Yatra’ and began speaking concerning the fiftieth anniversary of the Emergency.“We face an undeclared emergency within the nation right now. The BJP obtained rattled by our ‘Samvidhan Bachao Yatra’ and began speaking about 50 years of Emergency,” Kharge mentioned.“Those that couldn’t do a lot throughout their tenure, additionally couldn’t give any solutions on problems with unemployment, inflation and demonetisation, are doing this (marking 50 years of imposition of Emergency as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’) to cover their failures and repeated lies,” he added.This comes hours after PM Modi known as the imposition of Emergency “the darkest chapters in India’s historical past” and mentioned that the values enshrined within the Structure had been put aside and Congress positioned democracy beneath arrest.“At present marks fifty years since one of many darkest chapters in India’s democratic historical past, the imposition of the Emergency. The folks of India mark this present day as Samvidhan Hatya Diwas. On this present day, the values enshrined within the Indian Structure had been put aside, elementary rights had been suspended, press freedom was extinguished and a number of other political leaders, social staff, college students and atypical residents had been jailed. It was as if the Congress Authorities in energy at the moment positioned democracy beneath arrest!” PM Modi mentioned in a publish on X.“We salute each one who stood agency within the combat towards the Emergency! These had been the folks from throughout India, from all walks of life, from numerous ideologies who labored carefully with one another with one intention: to guard India’s democratic cloth and to protect the beliefs for which our freedom fighters devoted their lives. It was their collective wrestle that ensured that the then Congress Authorities needed to restore democracy and name for recent elections, which they badly misplaced,” he added.
