This refers to the report, “Cong hits back: Modi more cruel than Aurangzeb” (June 27). The imposition of the Emergency has been the darkest episode in the history of post-Independence India except the holocaust of 1947. It is with great horror that one recollects how thousands of people were jailed without trial, how the Press was muzzled, how huge number of people were forcefully sterilised, and above all, how the judiciary was tamed by the Congress.
The Congress is now trying to erase the memories of Emergency. In doing so, they are taking recourse to the famous quote of Joseph Goebbels: “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” The Indian electorate, simple though it may be, is not so naïve as not to understand the truth when they find that on one side they are accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having imposed an undeclared Emergency, but in the same breath, they are able to, day in and day out, criticise him in the choicest abusive language — even calling him Aurangzeb.
Second, do they not get to the hollowness of their accusation of controlling the judiciary when they find the same judiciary giving a judgement that helped the Congress in forming the Government in KarnatakaIJ Similar is the case with their accusation related to the Election Commission when people find Ahmad Patel getting elected because of the verdict from the same Election Commission. lastly, but not any less mind-boggling is the newborn hatred of the Congress for Aurangzeb, in whose name a prominent road had been existing all these years under their regime.