Hitting out at Congress for having a feudal mindset senior BJP leader and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here that foundation of “Congress-free India” was laid during Emergency because people joined hands to wipe out feudal mindset of Congress leaders.
“Congress governments which came to power after Emergency too worked with feudal mindset. Instead lesson from the emergency the Congress party repeated their in, Naqvi said while addressing a programme organized on Emergency here on Sunday.
Naqvi said that emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was the biggest blot on Indian democracy. Democracy was throttled, fundamental rights of the people were violated and opposition leaders were put behind bars. The people especially youths came to the streets under the leadership of Jaiprakash Narain to protect democracy. Hundreds of people died in jails, there was height of cruelty and brutality against political opponents, he said.
“Congress-free India doesn’t mean making the country free from any particular party but it is to make the country free from the “feudal mindset” and “autocratic thinking” which the Congress represented,” he said.
Naqvi said that one of the important messages of the Emergency is that the people of the country will never accept or tolerate dictatorship, brutality, arrogance and feudal mindset. This is the reason that the Congress is shrinking from political map of the country. Those political parties who support the Congress have also been bearing the brunt of its acts, he said.
He said Congress’ mentality is to create hurdles in efforts made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for empowerment of poor people and nation’s development. The Congress has insulted the historic mandate given to the Modi Government in 2014 lok Sabha polls and the party has blocked passage of key legislations related to nation’s economic development by misusing its numerical strength in Rajya Sabha,” he said.
Naqvi said that Modi and the BJP is a watchman of nation’s democracy and democratic values. On this occasion our commitment should be to defeat all those who want to obstruct the nation’s development. We should strengthen the democratic values and then only India will be able to keep its status of biggest and greatest democracy of the world, he said.