Fifty years after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency, the ruling BJP is piously declaring how it fought a valiant battle for “democracy” against “great dictator” Indira Gandhi.
The BJP-led government has announced 25 June, the date when the Emergency came into effect in 1975, as “Samvidhan Hatya Diwas”. The BJP has held a series of programmes denouncing Indira Gandhi. A book, The Emergency Diaries, which propagates how Prime Minister Narendra Modi was affected by the Emergency, has been launched. Modi has divested himself of self-righteous statements about democracy being “arrested” in 1975.
