Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said that the night of June 25, 1975, came as a thunderbolt for this country as people were put in jail and the press was also banned.
Congress on Tuesday declared that Rahul Gandhi, party's MP from Raebareli will be Leader of the Opposition in the 18th Lok Sabha, ending the 10-year spell of no LoP in the Lower House since 2014.
Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, president of Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, Hanuman Beniwal and other leaders of the INDIA bloc were present in the meeting.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday that fifty years ago, Congress, under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, "conspired to destroy" the Constitution and democracy by imposing an Emergency in the country.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday visited the Shri Amarnath Yatra Base Camp at Baltal located in Ganderbal district and reviewed the arrangements for the holy pilgrimage.
Rahul Gandhi was part of the remaining MPs who took their oaths today after a total of 262 newly elected MPs, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, did so on Monday, the inaugural session of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Speaking to ANI on the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, Choubey said, "...The spark of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan's 1974 movement was ignited in Bihar...People like us were the fighters of the student movement in Bihar at that time and the Student Struggle Committee called for a movem
Terming the Emergency as the "black day", Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that the Constitution of the country is very important for the Bharatiya Janta Party-led National Democratic Alliance.
Rahul Gandhi won from both Raebareli and Wayanad Lok Sabha constituencies in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. While Rahul Gandhi won with a margin of 364422 votes from Wayanad defeating Communist Party of India's Annie Raja, in Raebareli, he won with a margin of 390030 votes from R
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi unleashed ruthless atrocities on the people of India during the Emergency.
The Emergency, which is considered to be one of the most controversial periods of independent India's history, was imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from June 25, 1975, to 1977.