March 28, 2026

Indira Gandhi Emergency

RSS demands Congress apology over Emergency: Seeks removal of ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ from Preamble; asserts not part of Constitution earlier | India News

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RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale (ANI) NEW DELHI: The RSS on Thursday urged a review of the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Constitution’s preamble, citing they were added during the Emergency and not included in the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar. RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabole was addressing an event marking 50 years of…

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‘Unimaginable horrors’: Union Cabinet passes resolution on Emergency; observes 2-minute silence | India News

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NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning 50 years of the imposition of the Emergency by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.In a media briefing, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, observed a two-minute silence as a tribute to the victims of…

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‘BJP got rattled’: Mallikarjun Kharge slams PM Modi’s Emergency reminder; calls it a cover-up for failures | India News

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NEW DELHI: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Samvidhan Hatya Diwas” reminder on the completion of 50 years of Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of marking the day to hide its own “failures and repeated lies.”Addressing a press conference, Kharge claimed that…

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‘Darkest chapters’: PM Modi criticises Congress for 1975 Emergency; ‘nefarious attempt made to strangle democracy,’ says BJP | India News

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Calling the imposition of Emergency on India “the darkest chapters in India’s history,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the values enshrined in the Constitution were set aside, and several people were jailed at that time; it was as if the Congress at that time placed democracy under arrest….

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