'Mindset Is Very Much Alive': PM Modi Slams Congress As BJP Launches 'Dark Days Of Emergency' Campaign

BJP national president JP Nadda also lashed out at Congress over Emergency calling it party's "politically driven decision" which "shook the very pillars of our democracy."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday trained guns on the Congress party over the Emergency period imposed in 1975 by then PM Indira Gandhi saying that the mindset of the grand old party is very much alive in the present as well. Modi further attacked the Congress party saying who imposed the Emergency have no right to profess their love for Constitution. 

"Today is a day to pay homage to all those great men and women who resisted the Emergency. The #DarkDaysOfEmergency remind us of how the Congress Party subverted basic freedoms and trampled over the Constitution of India which every Indian respects greatly," he said in a social media post on X. 

"Those who imposed the Emergency have no right to profess their love for our Constitution," Modi said. The PM's remark comes at a time when BJP and Congress have been trading charges against each other for changing the Constitution during the Lok Sabha election campaign. 

On Monday as well, Congress's top leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and party president Mallikarjun Kharge, held protests holding the booklet of the Constitution. 

"The mindset which led to the imposition of the Emergency is very much alive among the same Party which imposed it. They hide their disdain for the Constitution through their tokenism but the people of India have seen through their antics and that is why they have rejected them time and again," said the PM. 

BJP national president JP Nadda also lashed out at Congress over Emergency calling it party's "politically driven decision" which "shook the very pillars of our democracy and tried to trample over the Constitution." 

"June 25, 1975- this is the day the Congress Party's politically driven decision to impose a state of emergency shook the very pillars of our democracy and tried to trample over the Constitution given by Dr. Ambedkar," he said in a post on X. 

Union Home Minister Amit Shah too attacked the grand old party saying: "The arrogant, autocratic Congress government had suspended all kinds of civil rights in the country for 21 months for the sake of power of one family."