Shimla, June 26 -- As the Union Cabinet passed a resolution to observe the 50th anniversary of the Emergency as 'Samvidhan Hatya Divas', Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, on Thursday, said that the government is putting this forward to the public so the dark day does not repeat.

Addressing the media in Shimla, Rijiju said, "Yesterday in the Cabinet, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we passed a resolution. India is the largest democracy in the world...democracy should stay alive, that's our responsibility."

"On June 25, 1975, in the wee hours, the Emergency was imposed. The media suffered the Emergency's biggest rage as the media was strangled," he added.

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