PM Modi, concluding the two-day debate on the 75th anniversary of Constitution adoption in Lok Sabha, ripped into the previous Congress regimes for its ‘blatant disregard’ of the Constitution and ‘murder of the democracy’ and stressed that the trend first started during the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s tenure.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a frontal attack at the Congress party on Saturday and raked up the 1975 Emergency imposed under former PM Indira Gandhi-led regime to slam the grand old party over its claims of being the ‘rightful custodians’ of democracy.
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PM Modi, concluding the two-day debate on the 75th anniversary of Constitution adoption in Lok Sabha, ripped into the previous Congress regimes for its ‘blatant disregard’ of the Constitution and ‘murder of the democracy’ and stressed that the trend first started during the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s tenure.
“The Emergency imposed by the then Indira Gandhi regime continues to remain and will always be a black chapter in the history of Indian democracy. People were subjected to inhumane treatment and their basic rights taken away by the then tyrannical regime,” PM Modi said
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“Congress govt strangulated democracy in 1975. It is a taint which Congress will never be able to get rid of,” PM Modi further said in Lok Sabha. Without taking Gandhi’s name, Prime Minister attacked the ‘one family’ that ruled the country for almost 55 years, in the 75 years of the country’s Independence.