India never bows to dictatorship: Shah on Emergency

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday the Emergency was not a national necessity but a reflection of the anti-democratic mentality of the Congress and "just one person", a reference to then prime minister Indira Gandhi.

Paying tributes to those who suffered after the imposition of Emergency by the Indira Gandhi government on June 25, 1975, Shah said the day reminds everyone that when those in power become dictatorial, the people have the power to overthrow them.

The home minister said the Emergency was the "Age of Injustice of Congress' hunger for power".

The Modi government observes this day as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' so that the new generation is made aware of the pain and torture that the countrymen faced during the Emergency, he said.