Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday addressed the ’50 years of Emergency’ program. During this, he said, when the emergency was imposed, I was 11 years old. The effect of emergency in Gujarat was less, because the public government was formed there. But later that government fell. He said, I come from a small village. 184 people went to jail from my village. I will not forget that day and those scenes.
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Shah said, going to jail only for the idea of ​​being independent, it cannot be gauged. We cannot even imagine how ruthless she must have been for the people of India in the morning. The Union Home Minister said, it is difficult to define the Emergency in one sentence. I have made a meaning of this. A conspiracy to convert the multilateral democracy of a democratic country into dictatorship is an emergency.
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He said, this battle was won because no dictatorship in this country can tolerate it. India is the mother of democracy. At that time no one liked the emergency, except the dictators and the small compressed group who benefited. He was confused that no one could challenge him, but when the first Lok Sabha elections were held after the Emergency, for the first time, a non-Congress government was formed after independence and Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister.
Shah said, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced on All India Radio at 8 am that the President has imposed an emergency. Was the approval of Parliament taken? Was cabinet meeting called? Was the opposition taken into confidence? Those who talk about democracy today, I want to tell them that they are associated with the party that ended democracy. The reason given was national security, but the real reason was the security of power. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister, but she did not have the right to vote in Parliament. He had no rights as Prime Minister. He left the scope of morality and decided to remain Prime Minister.
The Union Home Minister said, a series of many incidents shook the democratically elected government. There was no national threat. We had recently won the war with Bangladesh. There was no internal or external threat. Indira Gandhi was the only threat to the position of the post… People woke up and understood that the vote she gave on the basis of sentiment is being misused. Understanding this, Indira Gandhi imposed an emergency. A cabinet meeting was called at 4 am. Later Babu Jagjivan Ram and Swarn Singh said that the agenda was not even discussed with them, they were only informed, called the Home Secretary and the orders were passed.
He said, I remember, from our village, we were sitting in a truck and watching the results of the Lok Sabha elections in front of a newspaper building … When we came to know that Indira Gandhi has lost the election, it is around 3 or 4 o’clock in the night, we also came to know that Sanjay Gandhi has also lost the election, then the happiness that was on the faces of thousands of people, I can never forget.
