Constitution Hatya Diwas on 12th July 2024

Constitution Hatya Diwas on 12th July 2024

Indian Government declared 25th June as Constitution Hatya Diwas

Why so? Well, it is called a black day in the history of India because for two years

India had become almost like North Korea. Yes, I am not joking at all. Nearly lakhs of people were

forcefully put in jail without any crime. They were brutally tortured there. And mind you,

from the leaders of the opposition party to the kings and maharajas of the royal family

were also behind bars. And all of them were also facing torture. The country had

actually become a dictatorship regime. In fact, today, the opposition

targets the current government for bulldozer justice. Do you know that this technique

actually originated during this emergency? Not only this, the Congress, which

raised voice for minorities, But during the Emergency, it was also accused of mass persecution of Muslims. Can you believe that Congress is known for minorities today, but during Emergency, this Congress suppressed minorities the most. But wait a minute, why was Emergency imposed? Well, some intellectuals say that imposing Emergency was a nationalist move. In fact, PM Indira Gandhi herself had called it necessary for the country and even RSS was supporting it. The same RSS which supports BJP today, so does it mean that BJP’s Samvidhan Hatya Diwas is just a political tool, a propaganda, because currently you must be seeing that Modi Ji is being accused of being a dictator. Why dictatorship? If Modi is a dictator, then is this a new way of whitewashing this image to divert people’s attention?

Let us give a distractor that the Congress people

killed the real Constitution. Modi ji, don’t be a bit

indifferent. Let us know in detail the reality

behind all this. Another big question arises here.

People often call Indira Gandhi the murderer of the

Indian Constitution, but do you know what former Indian

PM and founding figure of BJP Atal Bihari Vajpayee

used to address her as Durga. Indira Gandhi was one of the most

decorated PMs India ever had. From India’s first nuclear

test Smiling Buddha to making strategic states in the North East

like Sikkim an integral part of India, Indira Gandhi has many

achievements which India has been celebrating till date.

Even the foundation of RAW happened under Indira

and who can forget the liberation of Bangladesh when Indira

ji literally Pakistan was divided into two parts but then what happened that such a celebrated leader got the tag of the killer of Indian constitution. Finally, well let’s find this out. Brothers and sisters, the President has declared emergency. There is no reason to be terrified by this. There is a black day in the history of India and its name will be nothing but the word emergency. So the story begins in 1972 when general elections were to be held in India. But Indira Gandhi felt that time was in her favour and that is why due to overconfidence, she decided to hold the 1972 general elections a year earlier in 1971. The opposition party Jansangh was also very happy with this decision and they fielded the most popular face of that place, Raj Narayan, against Indira in the Rae Bareli seat. At that time, when the opposition raised slogans of Indira Hatao, Indira ji very tactfully converted these slogans in her favour. Indira Gandhi then replaced them with slogans of Garibi Hatao, through which she appealed to the people that now it is up to them whether to remove Indira or poverty. In this election, Indira ji again got 183000 votes and Raj Narain got 7149 votes, after which Raj Narain accused Indira of ballot paper tampering and corrupt practices and appealed in Allahabad High Court. This matter was again investigated and the court gave its final verdict on 12th June 1975 and said that Indira Gandhi is really guilty because she used loudspeakers, which belong to the government, on the campaign stage and in the elections a party

She could not use him for her personal benefit, she used them too and she also used gazetted officers like IAS, IPS as election agents of her party. Now what happened in this case was that it took 4 years for the final verdict of this case to come and in these four years, PM Indira Gandhi’s government was ruling the country and that is why the Supreme Court stayed Indira Gandhi’s removal and said that she can remain PM for this one year but will not be able to participate in any parliamentary proceedings and voting, that is, she remained PM only in name. Now on one hand all this was going on in Delhi and on the other hand in the same Delhi, a big stature socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan raised the issue of rising inflation, corruption, unemployment and bad law and order in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan filled with lakhs of people. I said that now India needs a total revolution. These words of a socialist leader were important because his word revolution was linked to the revolution in Russia and China and this is where the whole game changed. This one movement pushed India into a dictatorship regime for the next 2 years.

The situation at that time was such that PM Indira Gandhi could not take any action to save her power just because of the verdict of the Supreme Court. But Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement gave Indira ji a golden opportunity to save her power and without any delay, on the night of 25th June 1975, she declared a nation wide emergency on All India Radio in the name of internal disturbances and from here began the darkest star of Indian democracy. Brothers and sisters, the President has declared an emergency. There is no reason to panic over this. You all must be aware of the deep and wide conspiracy which has been hatched since the time I started taking some progressive measures for the benefit of the common people of India. As soon as the emergency was declared, opposition leaders were picked up from their homes overnight. Vijay Rajesh Scindia Jai ​​Prakash Narayan Mulayam Singh Leaders like Yadav, Raj Narayan, Murarji Desai, Charan Singh, George Fernandes, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, Arun Jaitley were put in jail overnight and the families of those leaders who had gone into hiding out of fear of the police were also being harassed, like George Fernandes’ brother Lawrence Fernandes. Fernandes says that the police picked him up from his house and asked him to tell them George’s address or else the police would throw him under a moving train. In jails too, these leaders were being given inhuman treatment, which was a blot on the name of any democratic civilized society. In Nehru National Memorial Library’s book Torture of Political Prisoners in India, page number 291, it is mentioned that at that time almost all the jails of the country were filled with prisoners and people were being given electric shocks. They were made to lie on ice slabs after removing their clothes and the bodies of many were burnt with cigarettes and candles. Some prisoners were hung upside down for days and some were even forced to drink their own urine. This kind of cruel inhuman treatment was done to those who were not consensual, opposition leaders or just journalists. And yes, another very strange thing whose name is also associated with emergency till date is forceful vasectomy. Forceful mass sterilization. Actually what happened was that a sterilization drive was already going on in India since 1952, which was a part of the National Family Planning Scheme. In fact, India also happens to be the first ever country in the world to launch a scheme of nation-wide family planning. We all know that The obvious reason behind sterilization was population control because in 1970 India’s population was growing rapidly and India did not have the resources to feed such a large population. So basically sterilization was a well thought out decision but its implementation was equally disastrous in a country like India where superstitions are so strong. Many people here considered sterilization against their prestige and that is why its results were not so fruitful but due to emergency the government had got a free hand which was misused very well. For example, during that time the government organized a lot of sterilization camps across the nation where teachers and other government workers were literally given targets that they had to somehow sterilize so many people in a day. Sterilization has to be done, so in order to achieve the target, they used to forcibly pick up people and get them sterilized, without any respect of whether they were married or not. Now take the example of Barshi district of Maharashtra where in January 1976, Barshi Municipal Council was given the target of getting 1000 sterilizations done in 10 days, but in the first two days hardly anyone volunteered, and later on the third day, in order to achieve the target, two trucks started roaming all over Barshi and people were literally being caught on the streets and sterilized, just like today the municipality vehicles roam around to catch stray dogs and get them sterilized. In the same way, the situation was similar at that time as well. During the time of emergency, they used to get whoever they could get, even married people. They used to forcibly drag unmarried old and young people and sterilize them, that too under very unhygienic conditions due to which many people got infections and some even died, but this is nothing. In a 1977 book, The Judgement Inside Story of Emergency in India, there is a mention of an incident of Nar Kadi in Sultanpur, UP, where the crowd gathered for the strike attacked the police, after which the police opened fire on them and 13 people died instantly. So in this entire drive, a total of 60 lakh i.e. 6 million people were sterilized, including people from Takman Gate of Delhi, where the biggest Mason incident of this emergency was even more dangerous than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Let’s compare it. Takman Gate was a Muslim majority part of Delhi and in Islam sterilization is considered haraam. So because of forced sterilization, the Muslims there were very angry with the government. But the final nail in the coffin was put by the bulldozers. Yes, the same bulldozer justice which is being criticized so much by the opposition, especially the Congress, today. Bulldozers are being used against a family. This bulldozer justice was first actually implemented by the Congress. Turkmen gate was illegal.

Bulldozers were used to demolish the construction under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi who was spearheaded by Jagmohan Malhotra and yes you guessed it right the same Jagmohan Malhotra who later became the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. Then against these bulldozers people obviously started protesting but the police started lathi charge and open fire against it in which 6 to 20 people died and then according to several books and accounts during this protest the crowd of protesters hid in the mosque but the police broke the door of the mosque and entered inside and there also they started lathi charge on the protesters. Yes this has been mentioned in many books and yes again during this protest Jagmohan ji had written a book on Muslims. When he was asked why he was doing all this, his answer was that after breaking Pakistan, we will not allow another Pakistan to be created in India. Jagmohan replied, “Do you think we are crazy to break Pakistan and let another Pakistan be created?” And then later when the Shah Commission report came, it clearly mentioned that the government had demolished many people’s houses illegally with bulldozers. But the most surprising thing was that all this was happening in Delhi where many media houses and newspapers had office suites. During the censorship on media emergency, a rule was passed that whatever news has to be covered, it will be printed in the newspaper only after getting verified through the government. And when all these atrocities were happening at that time, Bobby movie was playing on Doordarshan, you know just to distract the people from the horrors of Emergency and a similar strange incident happened with the legendary singer Kishore Kumar. To distract the people during Emergency, Sanjay Gandhi asked him to sing a song for Congress but he straightaway refused after which the government unofficially banned his songs. Now during Emergency, even the kings and VIPs of that time were not spared from such treatment like the famous South actress of 1970 Neha Lata Reddy who opposed Emergency and then the police put her in the confinement ward of Bangalore Central Jail in 1976 under Maintenance of Internal Security Act MISA knowing that she was an asthmatic patient and went into asthmatic coma twice in jail. She had already returned to India in 1974 but even then she was tortured a lot inside the jail and at last when she came out on parole in January 1977, she died in just five days. Apart from this, because law and order was completely out of control during the emergency, people were not only tortured but even official government thefts took place in the country. It is said about Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi, who was Indira Gandhi’s classmate, that Indira Gandhi was a little jealous of Gayatri Devi’s beauty and royalty. Due to this hate raid, when Gayatri was an opposition MP, Indira Gandhi even called her a bitch and glass doll in the parliament to insult her. Now, as soon as she imposed emergency, Indira abolished the private purse which was being given to kings as pension since independence, which was In the eyes of Absolute India, it was a right decision but during the same time Indira ji arrested Gayatri Devi under this act which is Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Act and got her admitted in Tihar Jail after which she put a team of ASI and local police and army to work for 5 months to find the treasure of the queen in Jaigarh Fort and then even when the claim was in jail, the government found this treasure after which Sanjay Gandhi himself came to Jaipur personally. Even to take the treasure from here, the Delhi Jaipur highway was kept closed for a whole day and 5060 army trucks left for Delhi. The queen’s son says that 800 kg gold was stolen from his house and taken away but till date no one has said anything about the truth behind this claim. Even the government officials did not debate or discuss it. So now here comes a very important question which must be coming in your mind too that how did PM Indira Gandhi control such a big country without any military muscle or any military action? Well, a simple answer to this is Constitution Manipulation. First of all, on 10th August 1975, PM Indira Gandhi passed the 39th Constitution Amendment Act. This act said that from now on, there will be no jurisdiction of the judiciary on the issues related to the President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Speaker. So basically the Supreme Court will be irrelevant here. Now, due to the decision of Allahabad Court, they lost their seat and they got it back because now Also, the courts have become irrelevant and after this amendment, the judiciary cannot file any case against the PM. The second manipulation happened in January 1977 when they passed another 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act which is also called the country’s mini constitution because they removed and added 40 articles in it. If we see, there were four major changes in it which put the PM’s office in control.

Complete control had come in the hands of the centre. First of all, at the time of emergency, two powers were allotted to the centre. One was the power to override state losses, i.e. to cancel them and second was the power to deploy central armed forces in any state. That is, whenever the PM wanted, he could deploy the military in any other state. There was limited judicial review. With this clause, they passed a law that whatever act the central government would place in schedule nine, the judiciary could not take any action on it. That is, in simple words, according to this clause, whatever act the central government would pass, the judiciary could not say anything and that is why they had openly conducted a sterilisation drive. Third change: during emergency, the power to extend the term of parliament and state assemblies came to the central government. Fourth change: during emergency, all the Power to override Fundamental Rights, due to which the three most important Fundamental Rights of Indians were immediately banned, you know basic Fundamental Rights of a human being like Right to Life, Right to Personal Liberty, all these things were banned due to which they were able to openly pick up anyone and put them in jail, after this Right to Constitutional Remedies was also banned due to which in the entire two years of Emergency, not even a single person was able to file any case against the government because normally if we have to file any case then we go to Supreme Court through lower court but this Fundamental Right of Constitutional Remedy gives us permission to go directly to Supreme Court on violation but this right was rejected and the last Right to Freedom was also banned due to which Press Media became political Organizations, protests, everything was banned. Apart from this, many other things were also changed and added like words like socialist, secular and integrity were added to the constitution. The word fundamental duties was also added. All India Judicial Services is an asset. I will put a link of all these changes in the description below. You can check it for detailed knowledge. But these four major changes literally gave the entire control to PM Indira Gandhi. Now, if we see, it was 1977 and it had been two years since the emergency was imposed. People had even thought that India had also joined those authoritarian regimes which first took birth as a democracy and then after a leader was elected democratically, it became a democracy. Dictatorship got converted into a nation but on 18th January 1977 PM Indira Gandhi shocked the public and announced elections herself. For this she also gave this reason that in democracy governments run with the mandate of the people but the people were not happy with this emergency and that is why they are revising it. Then what happened was that general elections were held in 1977. Congress lost and Janata Party won the elections and formed its government. The first thing they did was to revise the changes that PM Indira had made in the 42nd Amendment Act like suspension of fundamental rights during emergency, limiting the powers of judiciary etc. by bringing 44th Constitutional Amendment Act and wrote that from now on emergency can be imposed only after the signature of the President. The biggest question here is whether PM Indira Gandhi’s decision to impose emergency was really right, was it in national interest or personal interest. So, there are two sides to this. One, people considered this decision right. In fact, organizations like RSS also supported the emergency. Now, according to many experts, Indira Gandhi imposed emergency because international elements wanted to topple the Indian government, just like George Soros is trying to topple India by pumping thousands of crores into India. Even according to many reports, JP Narayan’s protest was funded by the CIA, which wanted to end India’s democracy. But how much truth is there in this is not yet fully proven. And as far as these human drives like sterilization are concerned, Asian studies have shown. According to him, to control the population of India, West India was being pressurized a lot to do sterilization drive and that is why in such circumstances where Indians do not have to undergo sterilization but the government wants sterilization, emergency was imposed. This was also a major factor. And of course the most common speculating probably declared a nation wide emergency to retain its power. This is also a perspective in which many thinkers believe. So what do you think, did Indira Gandhi have a nationalist justified reason behind declaring emergency or was there only a selfish motive behind it? Do tell us in the comments below what you think and because the BJP government has officially dedicated a day as murder of the constitution. Day is given below. Let’s have a little discussion about this. What do you think about the resentment that had developed among the Indian people towards Indira Gandhi during the Emergency. The anger that had developed. We are seeing a similar situation today in Iran, the stronghold of Shia Islam. Iran is on the path of becoming a secular country. In the recent elections held there, a leader of a liberal party became the President. Not just this, Iran

In Iran, even 50000 mosques have been closed because people have stopped going there. Now what is the whole situation, why are Muslims going away from Islam in Iran. Friends, share this information with your friends and family members as much as possible because most of the people do not know what all happened during the emergency. All these things were either suppressed or destroyed due to censorship. See you in the next episode. Till then take care Jai Hind.