After Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the Congress on the anniversary of the Emergency, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala fired back at the BJP and said the party was attempting to distract voters ahead of 2019 elections.
He also said that then prime minister Indira Gandhi was “drunk on power” and an “arrogant leader”. Modi is a more brutal dictator than Aurangzeb, the Congress’ Randeep Surjewala retorted.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday, Surjewala said Modi did not get his mandate on the 21-month-long Emergency that was in place some 43 years ago. Rather, the Modi government came to power on the promise of achhe din, good governance, employment, electrification, and development.
“Just because they have no answers, this brutal Aurangzeb-like dictatorial government can’t escape by shifting the focus away,” Surjewala said.
Surjewala also accused Modi of obfuscating important issues by raking up the past. That people have had to bear hardship (demonetisation, GST) because of the whims of one man (Modi), that there is an atmosphere of fear in the country, and that dissent is being curtailed.
He also called the BJP a Bohot Joothi Party, adding that whenever anyone tries to ask them a question about their performance in the past 49 months, they are called anti-national. He said that history will teach the bohot juthe pradhanmantri (lying prime minister) a lesson.
June 25 marks the day when Indira Gandhi declared a state of Emergency across the country for a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977. However, the BJP is observing the 43rd anniversary of this time period as a “Black Day”.
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