“Supporters Of Democracy Tortured During Emergency”: PM Modi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Describing the Emergency as a “dark period” in India’s history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said those who supported democracy at that time were tortured and a glance at such crimes endangering the country’s freedom would make it easier for the young generation to understand the meaning and significance of democracy.

In his monthly ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio broadcast, PM Modi said India is the mother of democracy and “we consider our democratic ideals as paramount and our Constitution supreme”.

“Therefore, we can never forget June 25th. This is the very day when Emergency was imposed on our country. It was a dark period in the history of India,” the Prime Minister said.

“Lakhs of people opposed the emergency with full might. The supporters of democracy were tortured so much during that time, that even today thinking about it, makes us shudder,” he said. 

Noting that many books have been written on these atrocities and punishments meted out by the police and administration, PM Modi said he had also written a book named “Sangharsh Mein Gujarat” at that time.