Contributions of those who fought against Emergency ought to be recognised
Ganesh Krishnan R
“Those who usurped all the constitutional rights during the Emergency are now behaving like saviours of democracy,” said RSS Akhil Bharatiya Sah-Prachar Pramukh Shri Nandakumar. The first amendment of the Constitution of India, brought in by Jawaharlal Nehru, was to bridle the Freedom of Expression. It is right time to bring all these things before the public for a debate. Shri Nandakumar was speaking at an event jointly organised by Association of Emergency Victims and Navodhayam on December 13, 2016
While many of states declared the anti-Emergency movement was a freedom struggle and provided pension to the victims, in Kerala, where even plunderings by communists were declared as part of freedom struggle, it didn’t happen, he said. “The participents in this movement have lost everything in their life. Though it is too late, their rich contributions ought to be recognised,” he added.
During the Emergency, even without having any discussion Indira Gandhi inserted secularism and socialism in the Constitution that were rejected by the Constituent Assembly. She did it as a show of courtesy to Communists. The communist leaders like AKG and EMS were released from jail within one week after the arrest. The progressive literary forum of Marxists passed a resolution, proposed by Bhisham Sahni, that said, ‘Had Emergency not been declared RSS and Capitalists would have taken the control of India!’ India is secular not because it is written in Constitution but because Sarvadharma Samabhava is in our blood. The real objective of inserting secularism in Constitution was to rake up communal tensions which was evident in the later years, he said.
Dr Richard Hay MP recalled the struggling days of Emergency when he was Students Union chairman. Dr R Balashankar, Adv Kylasanatha Pillay, N Venugopal and Rajasekhara Panicker were the other speakers. The meeting has decided to convene a meeting of Emergency victims on March 30, 2017.
‘Demonetisation is Financial Pokhran’—G GurumurtyGanesh Krishnan R Terming the demonetisation a financial Pokhran, Economist and Swadeshi ideologue Shri S Gurumurty said that it took a decade to understand that the Pokhran Nuclear blast was a paradigm shift for the country and the demonetisation will also create a similar imapct in our economy. He was speaking on the topic “Demonetisation – the Balance Sheet’ at Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on December 12, 2016. |
