Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while slamming the Congress party on the 50th anniversary of the emergency, has said that the Congress has ‘’ continued to be anti-democratic’’ irrespective of the change of guards.
While addressing a public meeting, Adityanath said, ‘Other faces have changed, but the character and gestures in the Congress are as wicked as what they were fifty years back; they tried their utmost to stifle all the democratic leaders of that time, including Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Morarji Desai, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Lal Krishna Advani to name a few.
The UP Chief Minister went on to accuse the Indira Gandhi Congress government of plotting to annihilate democracy by throttling the Constitution of India through the account of the Emergency declared on June 25, 1975.
They accused Congress of ‘amending the Preamble and attempting to destroy it,’ ‘alienating the services of the persons,’ ‘stripping the citizens of their basic rights,’ and ‘undermining the rights of the judiciary.’ He also blamed the party for ‘‘systematically visiting abroad to criticize democracy, questioning the election process and blaming EVM for their failures.
The Chief Minister’s comments have been made in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s severest attack on the Congress wherein he had said
“TheEmergencydarkdays remind how the CongressParty hosed over the constitution of India.”
During the tweets, PM Modi claimed that the Congress government had prevailed over all the organizational procedures and turned the country into a prison merely to capture power. Those who had enforced the emergency had no privilege to demonstrate adoration to the Constitution of India.
The Emergency has returned to Indian politics as the BJP seeks to unify people against the Congress, which it deems as an anti-democratic institution and, in turn, the opposition parties try their best to rise against the autocratic BJP.
