New Delhi, June 25 -- The Union Cabinet on Wednesday observed a two-minute silence to pay tributes to those whose constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights were taken away and who were then subjected to "unimaginable horrors" during the Emergency.

The Union Cabinet paid tributes to their exemplary courage and valiant resistance to the Emergency's excesses.

Briefing reporters after a meeting of Union Cabinet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that a resolution was adopted on 50 years of Proclamation of Emergency.

The Indira Gandhi government had imposed the Emergency on June 25, 1975. The day is observed by the government as 'Samvidhan Hatya Divas'

The meeting of the Union Cabinet was chaired by Prime Mini...