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Recalling the declaration of Emergency on June 25, 1975, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called it “a dark night that no devotee of democracy can ever forget.”
“The country had virtually become a prison. The voice of the Opposition had been smothered….The press was completely muffled,” he said without naming the Congress, adding that “Democracy is not only a system. It is our culture, ” Modi said in his monthly radio broadcast ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
Modi’s comments come at a time when the Opposition accused his government of imposing an “undeclared Emergency’.
Reacting to his radio broadcast, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury tweeted: “Right to Life, Liberty: essence of democracy. Even without declaration of Emergency, these basics violated for deprived, minorities and Dalits”.
Addressing the nation through his 33rd “Mann Ki Baat” broadcast, the Prime Minister also highlighted India’s achievements in space science, referring to the recent launch of 30 nano satellites with the ‘Cartosat-2 Series Satellite’ by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
“With India’s Nano Satellite Mission, we will get a lot of help in the field of agriculture, farming, and dealing with natural disasters,” he said.
Modi also spoke about the advantages of the Government E-Marketplace (GEM) system for small and micro entrepreneurs for selling their products to the government.
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