New Delhi, June 29 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday during the 123rd episode of his monthly radio address 'Mann Ki Baat' condemned imposition of Emergency in the country and termed the period as one of the darkest chapters in India's democratic history.

He said that country is observing the 50th anniversary of the Emergency as "Samvidhan Hatya Diwas".

During his address to the nation, he played rare archival audio of former Prime Ministers Morarji Desai, Babu Jagjivan Ram and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who described the Emergency as a time of constitutional murder, mass arrests, and the suppression of civil liberties and press freedom.

The Prime Minister asserted that every citizen should remember the ones who fought "bravely" agai...