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New Delhi: The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha is starting from June 24, on Wednesday the Parliament remembered the Emergency imposed in the country on June 26, 1975 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Not only this, a resolution was passed against the Emergency in Parliament and silence was observed. Meanwhile, Congress and opposition MPs created a ruckus. Due to which the proceedings of Parliament were adjourned for a day. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla started reading the resolution against the Emergency and termed it a black day in the history of India, on which the opposition MPs stood on their feet and started raising slogans.
While reading the resolution, Om Birla said that on 26 June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the then Congress government imposed emergency and turned the whole country into a prison. At that time many opposition leaders were put in jail. Restrictions were imposed on media and judiciary. Today, when we are entering the 50th year of imposition of emergency, the 18th Lok Sabha is determined to preserve democracy and the Constitution. Speaker Om Birla and BJP MPs observed two minutes of silence against the emergency.
Meanwhile, opposition MPs, especially Congress MPs, stood up from their seats and raised slogans. Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Speaker Om Birla for remembering the Emergency in the Lok Sabha and said that the youth of the country need to know what kind of situation arises when an Emergency is imposed in the country.
Earlier, newly appointed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla attacked the Congress and said that forced sterilization is being done under the pretext of reducing pressure in cities during the crisis, the current Lok Sabha expresses its condolences to all the victims of the crisis. The 38th to 42nd amendments in the Constitution were made to impose emergency, the purpose of which was to give all the powers to one person. By doing this, the rights of citizens, the principles of the Constitution and the values of democracy were crushed.
He said that the lives of the poor, Dalits and the deprived were ruined during the crisis. After reading the entire resolution, it was passed in the Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the proceedings of the Lok Sabha were adjourned for a day amid strong sloganeering and protests by opposition MPs. There was an uproar inside and outside the Lok Sabha over the emergency. A large number of BJP MPs gathered outside the Parliament and protested against the emergency with posters in their hands.
