Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Union Minister Kishan Reddy today took part in the ‘Mock Parliament session’ held at Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology, in Narayanguda, on the occasion of 50 years of Congress Emergency by state BJP Mahila Morcha. Speaking on the occasion, he said in the future, there was a need for youth and women to enter politics in large numbers in the country. He reminded that Modi had called for one lakh youth across the country to enter into politics.

“The young men and women who participated in this mock parliament should rise to the level of having to argue in Parliament in the future. The Indian Constitution is the best one in the world. In many countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, internal crises have arisen in those countries due to the violation of the constitution and suppression of democracy with military regimes.”  We are organizing this mock parliament with the intention of making today's generation aware of the anti-democratic actions that took place during the Emergency,” he said.

Reddy recalled during the rule of Indira Gandhi, when the problems of corruption and unemployment increased exponentially, Navnirman Samiti was formed in Gujarat and Bihar and added that a large-scale movement was launched by students against the Emergency and added that the police caned them. He recalled  that in 1971, Socialist leader Raj Narayan, who lost the Lok Sabha elections, filed a case in the Allahabad High Court with evidence alleging that Indira Gandhi had engaged in electoral corruption and misused the power machinery.  Indira Gandhi brought a new ordinance and postponed the elections in the name of internal crisis in the country.

Reddy said it was imperative that future generations be informed about the incidents that deprived the people of their fundamental rights during the Emergency. He said the responsibility of knowing history, protecting the Constitution and democracy, protecting freedom of speech in the future, leading the country in the right direction and eradicating poverty lies on the shoulders of the youth.