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Taking on the Congress Party on the 41st anniversary of the imposition of internal Emergency by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday termed it as a “Constitutional dictatorship” and said it was one of the biggest blots on the history of the Party after Independence.
“The blots on it are economic reforms being delayed by over two decades, transformation of India in to a dynastic democracy, the imposition of Emergency in 1975, Operation Blue Star and Corruption,” he wrote in a Facebook post titled “Constitutional Dictatorship imposed by Mrs INDIRA GANDHI Forty One Years ago” .
Hitting out at the Congress Party, he asked whether the current leadership of the Congress Party has a view on this subject. “Will the Congress Party have an internal debate on these issues,” he asked.
The Minister said that the impact of the Emergency was to inflict a dictatorship on the country. “The standards of accountability of the political class are high. Even the dictator had to face an electorate when faced with International and National opinion pressures. The collapse of the Media and the Supreme Court before the dictatorship was most significant,” he said, adding that politicians were the only Institution that fought the Emergency since they were the only accountable section of society.
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