The Emergency is a Blot on the Democracy that will never fade. His government gave Bharat Ratna to a veteran congress leader and former president Pranab Mukerjee, but the opposition could not think about bestowing the same honour to former PM’s and its leaders like P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the main opposition by claiming that it cannot see beyond the “first family”, and have flown so high on ambition and power that it lost connect with the nation’s roots. He lambastes the congress on Tuesday for its Gandhi – Nehru family hegemony.

         Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address an hour long reply in Lok Sabha to the motion of thanks on the president’s address. He said that the congress did not even recognize the contributions of leaders outside its ruling family, pointing out that the congress leaders never once mentioned. The contributions of Former Prime Ministers P V Narsimha Rao and Manmohan Singh. In their speeches in the Lok Sabha.

        Modi even blamed that congress for “Crushing India’s Soul” by imposing the emergency, which incidentally was imposed on June 25, in 1975 the anniversary of which fell on Tuesday. Modi said that the emergency is a blot on the democracy that will never fade. He alleged that during the emergency the then congress led government had trampled on the spirit of the constitution, gagged the media and bullied the judiciary.

         We can’t forget those dark emergency days, he added. Responding to congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudary’s dare to Jail Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, if they two were guilty of alleged wrong doings, he said. We are being taunted for not putting them in the jail. We are not in emergency, we follow rule of law, he said. These decisions are taken by courts, courts will decide on Jail and Bail, he said. You must enjoy while you are out of jail, he said.

        While referring to a court granting bail to the two top congress leaders in the national herald case. The motion of thanks was later passed by voice of vote. Mr. Modi praised the first Prime Minister of country Jawaharlal Nehru, describing him as a visionary and claimed that unlike the congress, which doesn’t recognize the good work of its own former Prime Ministers, he said. He himself had from the Ramparts of Redfort acknowledged the contributions of all PM’s and other prominent leaders in the country’s development, he said.

      His government gave Bharat Ratna to a veteran congress leader and former president Pranab Mukerjee, but the opposition could not think about bestowing the same honour to former PM’s and its leaders like P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh.