Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other high-ranking ministers of the central government participated and addressed several meetings organised in different parts of the country to remind the nation how the democratic setup of the country was attacked and the civil rights suspended.
Deploring the imposition of Emergency 50 years ago, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Wednesday said the Congress committed the sin of throttling democracy in the country.
The jail's model had a picture of former PM late Indira Gandhi, hiding the Constitution behind her back. She had imposed the emergency in the country on 25 June 1975, and today is its 50th anniversary.
“A large number of people were put in jails across the country. Anybody who questioned the government was put behind bars, and the democratically elected governments were removed,” he said at an event here.
