Jamshedpur, June 26 -- Marking the completion of 50 years since the declaration of Emergency in India, former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Raghubar Das launched a scathing attack on the Congress, calling the Emergency the darkest chapter of Indian democracy. Addressing a press conference at the BJP Jamshedpur Mahanagar office in Sakchi, Das accused the Congress of throttling the Constitution and strangling democracy for its own political survival.
"The Congress, in its greed for power, turned the entire country into a prison on the night of June 25, 1975. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi trampled on the Constitution and silenced all voices of dissent," said Das. He claimed that Congress no longer has the moral authority to spe...