50 Years Of Emergency | "Aapatkaal Ke 50 Saal": HM Shah On Indira Gandhi-Imposed ‘Emergency’
Addressing the 'Aapatkaal Ke 50 Saal' program, Union Home Minister Amit Shah blasts at Congress on June 24. Speaking at the event, Amit Shah said, "At 8 am, PM Indira Gandhi announced on the All India Radio that the President had imposed the Emergency. Was Parliament's approval taken? Was a cabinet meeting called? Was the Opposition taken into confidence? For those who talk about democracy today, I want to tell them that they are associated with a party that consumed democracy. The reason provided was national security, but the real reason was protection of the power... Indira Gandhi was the PM, but she did not have the right to vote in the Parliament. She did not have any rights as the Prime Minister. She left the moral ground and decided to continue as the Prime Minister..."
