Addressing a joint session of 18th Lok Sabha, President Draupadi Murmu on Thursday said that Emergency is a blot on Indian constitution.
Talking about the Emergency imposed in 1975 , President said, “The Emergency in 1975 was the biggest attack on the Constitution of India and a blot on it.”
“The Constitution of India has stood up to every challenge and every test in the past. Even when the Constitution was in the making, there were forces in the world who wished India to fail. Even after the Constitution came into force, it was attacked many times,” President Murmu added.
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She said that the entire country felt outraged, however country emerged victorious. In her view, tradition of republic at the core of India led to this victory.
“My Government also does not consider the Constitution of India as just a medium of governance; rather we are making efforts to ensure that our Constitution becomes a part of public consciousness,” the President said.
President, in the joint session, further said, “With this objective in mind, my Government has started celebrating November 26 as Constitution Day.”
Her comments follow the tense discussion between the opposition and the ruling BJP.
The opposition parties have repeatedly said that over the last 10 years of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government being in power, an “undeclared Emergency” is in force, while the Union ministers have highlighted the horrors of the Emergency imposed in 1975 by then Indira Gandhi government.
