Taking a swipe at the Centre’s decision on “Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas”, the Congress said from now on, every year on November 8, the day when demonetisation was announced in 2016, the people of India will celebrate “Aajivika Hatya Diwas” and a gazette notification will also be issued soon.

Congress chief spokesman Jairam Ramesh said the move is yet another headline grabbing exercise in hypocrisy by the non-biological Prime Minister who has 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, 2024 — which will go down in history as ModiMukti Diwas.

“This is a non-biological PM who has subjected the Constitution of India and its principles, values, and institutions to systematic assault. This is a non-biological PM whose ideological parivar had rejected the Constitution of India in November 1949 on the grounds that it did not derive inspiration from Manusmriti. This is a non-biological PM for whom democracy means only demo-kursi,” the Congress leader said. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee said times associated with Emergency were being seen most during the tenure of Modi.

The West Bengal CM said no one was consulted when “the three recent laws replaced the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure(CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act”. 

“It was passed when a large number of MPs were suspended. We do not support Emergency....(but) charity begins at home,” she asserted. Another Opposition leader and a Ràjya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi sought to know from Home Minister Amit Shah whether he is aware that emergency was applied on basis of a constitutional availability of the clause to declare emergency.