"Those who imposed the Emergency have no right to profess their love for our Constitution. These are the same people who have imposed Article 356 on innumerable occasions, got a Bill to destroy press freedom, destroyed federalism and violated every aspect of the Constitution," tweeted PM Narendra Modi.
"Today is a day to pay homage to all those great men and women who resisted the Emergency.
The #DarkDaysOfEmergency remind us of how the Congress Party subverted basic freedoms and trampled over the Constitution of India which every Indian respects greatly."
"The mindset which led to the imposition of the Emergency is very much alive among the same Party which imposed it. They hide their disdain for the Constitution through their tokenism but the people of India have seen through their antics and that is why they have rejected them time and again," Modi wrote.
Just to cling on to power, the then Congress Government disregarded every democratic principle and made the nation into a jail. Any person who disagreed with the Congress was tortured and harassed. Socially regressive policies were unleashed to target the weakest sections. - the Prime Minister said.
"Indira Gandhi’s unbridled desire to continue in power led to the imposition of Emergency and suspension of civil rights… ironically, the same Congress is today lecturing us on how to save the Constitution.
#DarkDaysOfEmergency
-- BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya
"1975: The Dark Days of Democracy! Constitution Crushed, Democracy Suspended," the party's official Twitter handle said.
The emergency, a period of sustained authoritarian rule, lasted from June 25, 1975, to March 21, 1977. The move authorized PM Indira Gandhi to rule by decree, suspend elections and to curb civil liberties including press freedom.
India debates Democracy and Emergency on 49th anniversary of 'Black night'.
In a blog in 2018, the then Finance Minister Late Arun Jaitley (under PM Narendra Modi) recalled that the Emergency was promulgated to curtail opposition protests seeking Indira Gandhi’s resignation as the prime minister after a High Court ruled against her in an election malpractice suit.
"The court was packed with the government’s preferred judges. A dangerous thesis was propagated by Law Minister H.R. Gokhale that the judiciary must follow the social philosophy of the government and judges must be appointed on the basis of their social philosophy," Jaitley wrote.
"Reflecting on the 1975 Emergency, let's follow the values of the Constitution for upholding our democracy!" -- Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis
"Never forgive
Never forget
Just holding a copy of Constitution won’t do
Acknowledge the crimes against Constitution you and your family committed 50 years ago." - Shehzad Poonawala
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