Senior BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday hit out at the Congress over the Emergency and also said that the framers of the Constitution knew that Lord Ram and Krishna are the heritage of this country and not Babur or Aurangzeb. Prasad said that Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi needs to change his tutor as he is ignorant of facts and suggested that he visit the cellular jail in Andaman and Nicobar where Veer Savarkar spent 11 years.
Reminding Congress allies that SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav were jailed during the Emergency and the DMK government was sacked, Prasad praised The Indian Express and its founder Ram Nath Goenka for not accepting censorship during the Emergency in 1975.
“All newspapers were cut off. Censor manoge to hum manenge (It will be restored when you accept the censorship). We will praise Indian Express and Ramnath Goenka because he did not accept (censorship) and remained firm.
Prasad said that the original constitution had pictures of Lord Rama returning to Ayodhya with Sita and Lakshmana after the conquest of Lanka, Lord Krishna, Bajrangbali Hanuman, Mahavir, Nataraja, Guru Gobind Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Akbar, but no pictures of Babur and Aurangzeb. He said, ‘If the constitution was made today, the opposition would have opposed putting such pictures.
Prasad said, “Our heritage is Lord Rama, Krishna, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda, Arvind Ghosh, Lokmanya Tilak, Narayan Guru, Subramanian Bharati and Mahatma Gandhi. Aurangzeb, Babur can never be our heritage.
Congress MP Kumari Selja said: “Emergency is being talked about. Yes, it happened… and there were injustices… no one denies that. Elections were held and Congress and Indira Gandhi were thrown out. It is the beauty of our democracy that in 1980 the same Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister again.
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