New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday announced that the Government has decided to observe June 25^th, the day the Emergency was declared in 1975, as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas to commemorate the massive contributions of those who endured inhuman pains during the period.

A gazette notification issued on Friday by the Union Home Ministry notes that Emergency was declared on June 25^th, 1975, following which there was gross abuse of power by the Government of the day and people of India were subjected to excesses and atrocities.

The people of India have abiding faith in the Constitution and the power of its resilient democracy, it said. Therefore, Government of India declares 25^th June as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas to pay tribute to all those who suffered and fought against the gross abuse of power during the period of Emergency and to recommit the people of India to not support in any manner such gross abuse of power, in future, says the notification.

          Jairam Ramesh Congress General Secretary In-charge, Communications said that PM Modi who had imposed an undeclared Emergency for ten long years before the people of India handed him a decisive personal, political, and moral defeat on June 4^th, 2024 which will go down in history as Modi Mukti Diwas.

The Congress slammed the Government’s move to declare June 25^th as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas, terming it yet another headline grabbing exercise in hypocrisy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.