Arun Jaitley praises Shiromani Akali Dal for role during Emergency
Arun Jaitley praises Shiromani Akali Dal for role during Emergency BJP leader Arun Jaitley has compared former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to Dictator Adolph Hitler and praised Shiromani Akali Dal for its role during the emergency period. He said SAD’s role during the period earned it “great respect” in the country. “It goes to the credit of the Shiromani Akali Dal that it offered its cadres for Satyagraha every day throughout the Emergency outside the Golden Temple and courted arrest. This earned the Akali Dal a great respect in the entire country. The RSS which was unfairly banned also provided a large cadre for Satyagraha,” he said. “Both Hitler and Mrs Gandhi never abrogated the Constitution. They used a republican Constitution to transform democracy into dictatorship,” Jaitley wrote while presenting a detailed account of his personal experience while he was jailed during the Emergency imposed by Gandhi on June 26, 1975. “An atmosphere of fear and terror prevailed in the country. Political activity had come to a grinding halt. The dissenters were mainly political workers of the opposition party and the RSS. They kept repeatedly organising Satyagrahas where a number of people courted arrest. “Hitler continued to maintain that his actions were within the Constitution. Mrs Gandhi imposed the Emergency under Article 352, suspended fundamental rights under Article 359 and claimed that ‘disorder was planned by the opposition in the country’.” Jaitley wrote the above mentioned in his latest article titled ‘The tyranny of emergency’. -PTC News
