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Centre declares June 25 as 'Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas', PM Modi welcomes move

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Jul, 2024 11:05 AM
  • Centre declares June 25 as 'Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas', PM Modi welcomes move

New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) June 25, the day when the Emergency was imposed on the nation by Late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's regime in 1975, will now be observed as the 'Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas', every year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday.

Home Minister Shah made the announcement on social media platform X and also shared a gazette notification.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the move, saying that this will serve as a "reminder of what happened when the Constitution of India was trampled over".

Notably, it was on June 25, 1975, that the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, in a brazen display of a dictatorship, decimated democracy and imposed a national emergency.

The nearly two-year period saw lakhs of being put behind bars and the voice of the media silenced.

The Home Minister said that the 'Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas' will commemorate the massive contributions of all those who endured the inhuman pains of the 1975 Emergency.

"The observance of 'Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas' will help keep the eternal flame of individual freedom and the defence of our democracy alive in every Indian. Thus preventing dictatorial forces like the Congress from repeating those horrors," he said.

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