Lesson on Emergency must for kids: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Around 75 per cent of India is unaware why and how emergency was imposed in the country, says Naqvi.
Lucknow: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday called for the inclusion of a chapter on the Emergency in textbooks, as there was a need to tell people about the “atrocities” committed during the period.
“Around 75 per cent of India is unaware why and how emergency was imposed in the country. Like independence struggle there is a need to tell the people about atrocities committed at that time,” Naqvi told reporters here.
He was here to felicitate Loktantra Senanis (fighters for democracy during Emergency) at a function organised by party’s city unit on 41st anniversary of its imposition. Naqvi said he would take up the matter with the concerned ministry. “They should realise how deep-rooted our democracy is. At that time people showed that they will not tolerate feudal mindset, arrogance and autocracy,” he said.
The minister said even after that Congress failed to learn a lesson and break free of the shackles of their “feudal mindset”. “That was the day when foundation of Congress-free India was laid. When we talk about Congress-free India, we mean that we want to rid India from the feudal mindset,” he said.