'In 1975, Indira turned country into prison'

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loktantra Senani Sangh (lSS) national president Kailash Soni said that in 1975 the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on getting her election repeal besides getting incompetent imposed emergency without any constitutional provision and turned the whole country into a prison.

Soni while talking to media persons here on Thursday said, “No record of the cruelest crime of hanging the constitution on hooks done by Indira is available today.

It is the commitment of lSS that the incidence like emergency should not be repeated by obstructing the democracy.”

Soni further said that a one day convention of the lSS would be held on June 26 at the Convocation Centre near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

During the 41st anniversary programme of the emergency due consideration would also be given to the problems currently faced by the country, he added.

He said Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Ananth Kumar would be the chief guest while Union Minister for Mines, Steel, labour and Employment Narendra Singh Tomar would preside over the function.

 Thanvarchand Gehlot, Ravishankar Prasad, Prakash Jawadekar, Rajendra Aglekar and Prabhat Jha would be the guest of honors on the occasion and Meghraj Jain, laxminarayan Yadav and Rao Uday Pratap Singh would be special invitees.

He said that the Rammanohar lohiya and Veer Sawarkar made initiatives to end casteism.

It is the need of the time to move forward the initiative taken by them.

If the discrimination of casteism is finished than the problem of reservation would automatically come to an end, he added.

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