{"id":94385,"date":"2024-06-27T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=94385"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:24:51","slug":"goa-bjp-observes-black-day-to-mark-50-years-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=94385","title":{"rendered":"Goa BJP observes &#8216;black day&#8217; to mark 50 years of Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday that the Constitution of India was in danger during the Congress rule, while the BJP is trying to protect it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At an event organised to mark 50 years of the imposition of Emergency by the then Congress government led by Indira Gandhi as &#8216;black day&#8217;, Sawant criticised Rahul Gandhi for &#8220;spreading lies&#8221; that the BJP will tamper with the Constitution.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIt was the Congress which changed Babasaheb Ambedkar&#8217;s Constitution several times. The Constitution was in danger because of the Congress during its rule,\u201d Sawant said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-94379\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27.06-1-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27.06-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27.06-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27.06-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27.06-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Senior BJP leader Govind Parvatkar claimed that then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency after she was disqualified as an MP for corrupt practices by the court to protect her chair.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;All the opposition leaders and prominent karyakartas were arrested at midnight (on June 25, 1975) and more than one lakh political and social activists were jailed during the 21 months of Emergency. The media was gagged, and all civil rights were withdrawn as dictatorship prevailed in the country for 21 months,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cRahul Gandhi, who is talking about the Constitution now, should be ashamed of the acts of his grandmother,\u201d Parvatkar added.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sadanand Tanavade said the young generation should know about the black deeds of the Congress.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI appeal to the karyakartas to be vigilant of the canards and lies being spread by the Congress,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday that the Constitution of India was in danger during the Congress rule, while the BJP is trying to protect it.\u00a0 At an event organised to mark 50 years of the imposition of Emergency by the then Congress government led by Indira Gandhi as &#8216;black day&#8217;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":94386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-94385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94387,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94385\/revisions\/94387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}