‘Headline grabbing exercise’: Congress reacts to govt declaring June 25 ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’ | India News
NEW DELHI: Union government on Friday declared to observe June 25, the day former PM Indira Gandhi had imposed a nationwide Emergency in 1975, as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’.
Declaring the government’s decision, Union home minister Amit Shah said the move “will commemorate the massive contributions of all those who endured the inhuman pains of the 1975 Emergency”.
Amit Shah said the Emergency was a “brazen display of Indira Gandhi’s directorial mindest”.
“On June 25, 1975, the then PM Indira Gandhi, in a brazen display of a dictatorial mindset, strangled the soul of our democracy by imposing the Emergency on the nation. Lakhs of people were thrown behind bars for no fault of their own, and the voice of the media was silenced,” Amit Shah wrote in a post on X.
“The Government of India has decided to observe the 25th of June every year as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas.’ This day will commemorate the massive contributions of all those who endured the inhuman pains of the 1975 Emergency,” he wrote.
Soon after Shah shared the government’s decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said to observe June 25 as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’ will serve as a “reminder of what happens when the Constitution of India was trampled over”.
“It is also a day to pay homage to each and every person who suffered due to the excesses of the Emergency, a Congress unleashed dark phase of Indian history,” PM Modi wrote in a post on X.
Congress’s ‘ModiMukti Diwas’ retort
The new decision of the government ruffled feathers in Congress as its senior leader Jairam Ramesh called the Centre’s move another “headline-grabbing exercise” by PM Modi.
In a retort to the ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’ declaration, Jairam Ramesh said “June 4 will go down in history as ModiMukti Diwas”.
“Yet another headline grabbing exercise in hypocrisy by the non-biological PM who had imposed an undeclared Emergency for ten long years before the people of India handed him a decisive personal, political, and moral defeat on June 4, 2024 – which will go down in history as ModiMukti Diwas,” Jairam Ramesh said.
In a veiled attack on the RSS, BJP’s ideological mentor, Ramesh said the organisation refused to accept the Consitution as it did not “derive inspiration from Manusmriti”.
Attacking PM Modi further, Ramesh said, “This is a non-biological PM who has subjected the Constitution of India and its principles, values, and institutions to systematic assault. This is a non-biological PM whose ideological parivar had rejected the Constitution of India in Nov 1949 on the grounds that it did not derive inspiration from Manusmriti. This is a non-biological PM for whom democracy means only demo-kursi”.
Declaring the government’s decision, Union home minister Amit Shah said the move “will commemorate the massive contributions of all those who endured the inhuman pains of the 1975 Emergency”.
Amit Shah said the Emergency was a “brazen display of Indira Gandhi’s directorial mindest”.
“On June 25, 1975, the then PM Indira Gandhi, in a brazen display of a dictatorial mindset, strangled the soul of our democracy by imposing the Emergency on the nation. Lakhs of people were thrown behind bars for no fault of their own, and the voice of the media was silenced,” Amit Shah wrote in a post on X.
“The Government of India has decided to observe the 25th of June every year as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas.’ This day will commemorate the massive contributions of all those who endured the inhuman pains of the 1975 Emergency,” he wrote.
Soon after Shah shared the government’s decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said to observe June 25 as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’ will serve as a “reminder of what happens when the Constitution of India was trampled over”.
“It is also a day to pay homage to each and every person who suffered due to the excesses of the Emergency, a Congress unleashed dark phase of Indian history,” PM Modi wrote in a post on X.
Congress’s ‘ModiMukti Diwas’ retort
The new decision of the government ruffled feathers in Congress as its senior leader Jairam Ramesh called the Centre’s move another “headline-grabbing exercise” by PM Modi.
In a retort to the ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’ declaration, Jairam Ramesh said “June 4 will go down in history as ModiMukti Diwas”.
“Yet another headline grabbing exercise in hypocrisy by the non-biological PM who had imposed an undeclared Emergency for ten long years before the people of India handed him a decisive personal, political, and moral defeat on June 4, 2024 – which will go down in history as ModiMukti Diwas,” Jairam Ramesh said.
In a veiled attack on the RSS, BJP’s ideological mentor, Ramesh said the organisation refused to accept the Consitution as it did not “derive inspiration from Manusmriti”.
Attacking PM Modi further, Ramesh said, “This is a non-biological PM who has subjected the Constitution of India and its principles, values, and institutions to systematic assault. This is a non-biological PM whose ideological parivar had rejected the Constitution of India in Nov 1949 on the grounds that it did not derive inspiration from Manusmriti. This is a non-biological PM for whom democracy means only demo-kursi”.
