One Family's Greed for Power Led to the Imposition of the Emergency: Amit Shah

  • HM Amit Shah launched an attack on Congress party and said that one family's greed for power led to the imposition emergency. 
  • Shah tweeted, "On this day, 45 years ago one family's greed for power led to the imposition of the Emergency. Overnight the nation was turned into a prison." 
  • "The press, courts, free speech...all were trampled over. Atrocities were committed on the poor and downtrodden," he added. 
  • Shah further said due to efforts of lakhs of people, the emergency was lifted and the democracy was restored but it remained absent in Congress. 
  • "The interests of one family prevailed over party interests and national interests. This sorry state of affairs thrives in today's Congress too!" he added. 
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