New Delhi, June 25 -- As the Centre marks the 50th anniversary of the Emergency as 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that the Emergency happened due to a combination of the weaponisation of laws, subversion of judicial independence, and disregard of the rule of law.

In a post on X, Sitharaman took a dig at current Congress leaders and said that 50 years on, India remembers the atrocity.

"Emergency...happened due to a combination of the weaponisation of laws, subversion of judicial independence, and disregard of the rule of law." For those in @INCIndia with a copy of our Constitution in their hands--50 years on, India remembers the atrocity," she said on X.

The Emergency, declared on thi...