‘Black days of Emergency’ recalled at two meetings organised by BJP and CPI(M) in Tirupati

The ‘Black days of the Emergency of 1975’ were recalled at two separate meetings conducted by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India(Marxist) here on Wednesday, marking the completion of 50 years of the event.

Member of Parliament and BJP national spokesperson Aparajita Sarangi watching a photo gallery on the Emergency, at a programme organised in Tirupati on Wednesday.
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K.V. Poornachandra Kumar

Member of Parliament and BJP national spokesperson Aparajitha Sarangi, who attended the meeting organised by the party’s Tirupati district unit, decried the manner in which the Congress rule plunged the entire nation into darkness with an iron hand.

Samanchi Srinivas, BJP Tirupati district president, also took her around the photo exhibition organised on the occasion that shed light on the blood-curdling instances from the emergency period.

‘A dark era’

Similarly, CPI(M) central committee member D. Rama Devi described as ‘a dark era’ the days when the freedom of speech was muzzled, media made to undergo endless scrutiny and the citizens brought under a tyrannical rule.

Writer Saila Kumar and veteran journalist A. Raghava also called the period as a blot on democratic India.