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As India commemorates 49 years since the 1975 Emergency on June 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi rebuked the Congress for holding protests with copies of the Constitution in hand, asserting that the Opposition party had no right to "profess its love" for the Constitution. “Those who imposed the Emergency have no right to profess their love for our Constitution. These are the same people who have imposed Article 356 on innumerable occasions, got a Bill to destroy press freedom, destroyed federalism and violated every aspect of the Constitution,” he posted on X.

PM Modi said the Congress party still has the same mindset and that was the reason people have perpetually rejected them in electoral politics.

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“The mindset which led to the imposition of the Emergency is very much alive among the same Party which imposed it. They hide their disdain for the Constitution through their tokenism but the people of India have seen through their antics and that is why they have rejected them time and again,” PM Modi said.

Remembering the days of emergency, PM Modi said the Congress ignored democratic principles and converted the whole nation into a jail for the sake of power.

“Just to cling on to power, the then Congress Government disregarded every democratic principle and made the nation into a jail. Any person who disagreed with Congress was tortured and harassed. Socially regressive policies were unleashed to target the weakest sections,” he added.

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As the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha commenced on Monday, INDIA bloc leaders entered the lower house with copies of the Constitution. They chanted slogans and flashed these copies when PM Modi and other senior BJP leaders went to the podium to take the oath.