PM Narendra Modi lauds Om Birla for making Emergency remark in Lok Sabha: 'Glad that...'
Hindustan TimesPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday thanked Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla for condemning Emergency imposed by the then Indira Gandhi-government in 1975. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with newly elected Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla as he accompanies him to the chair, at Parliament House in New Delhi on Wednesday. LOP Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Kiren Rijiju accompany him to the chair “I am glad that the Honourable Speaker strongly condemned the Emergency, highlighted the excesses committed during that time, and also mentioned the manner in which democracy was strangled,” PM Modi said in a X post. Follow- Lok Sabha news live ‘Emergency exemplified what a dictatorship looks like’: PM Modi PM Narendra Modi said that although the Emergency was imposed 50 years ago, it is crucial for today's youth to understand it.