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Mega Meltdown Of Congress & Its Supporters As Modi Govt Declares Constitution Violence Day

July 13, 2024
The Commune

On 12 July 2024, the Modi government announced that every year 25 June will be observed as “Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas” to remember how then PM Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in 1975 on the same day and strangled the soul of democracy. Union Home Minister Amit Shah took to his official X handle and wrote, “On June 25, 1975, the then PM Indira Gandhi, in a brazen display of a dictatorial mindset, strangled the soul of our democracy by imposing the Emergency on the nation. Lakhs of people were thrown behind bars for no fault of their own, and the voice of the media was silenced. The Government of India has decided to observe the 25th of June every year as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas.’ This day will commemorate the massive contributions of all those who endured the inhuman pains of the 1975 Emergency. #SamvidhaanHatyaDiwas”

This led to a severe meltdown among Congress members and supporters. Here is a look at their meltdown.

Jairam Ramesh

Congress member and General Secretary in-charge Communications called the announcement a “headline-grabbing exercise” and took the chance to attack PM, Modi. He called the recent Parliamentary election victory a “moral victory” for the “non-biological” PM

Priyanka Chaturvedi

A former Congress member and current member of Shiv Sena UBT, a Rajya Sabha MP, and Deputy Leader of the party, Chaturvedi also had a meltdown. She wrote two posts on her X handle on this matter. She claimed the Emergency was applied because there was a Constitutional availability of the clause. She also added, “It can be excesses of emergency and undermining authority to declare it yes or even the political reason for declaring emergency yes but it definitely cannot be death of constitutionality!”

In her next post, she accused Union HM Amit Shah of not choosing priorities properly. She parrotted Sardesai’s lines and wrote, “As of July 2023, India’s median age was 28.2 years HM Amit Shah doesn’t want to talk of their unemployment concerns, inflation concerns, paper leak concerns, future concerns But wants to give them a history lesson of what happened when they weren’t even born and something that doesn’t impact their present or future Talk of priorities.”  

Sagarika Ghose

TMC RS MP Sagarika Ghose and wife of journalist Rajdeep Sardesai decided to write a pun for a post on the matter. She decided to call the day of announcement of demonetisation as “economic hatya divas” and the day of Babri demolition as “itihaas hatya divas”. Very creative!

Self-Proclaimed Journalists

Rajdeep Sardesai

Senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai stated that the majority population of the country was born after the Emergency period and thought talking about the Emergency was “taking them back into the past” and called for “changing the Emergency mindset” – well, only he knows what that means.

Rohini Singh

Journalist Rohini Singh stated there was an undeclared emergency for the past 5 years, were you aware of it?

Another self-proclaimed journalist, Arvind Gunasekar wanted to declare 30 January as “Gandhi Hatya Divas”. Well!

Deputy Editor of The Hindu, Vijaita Singh was “quoting facts”. She spotted that there was no English translation of “Samvidhaan Hatya Divas” in the official gazette and that it will be known by its Hindi name in English letters.” What a discovery!

A Congress TaskForce member had a very confused reaction after the announcement. He called for ban of RSS after I.N.D.I Alliance came to power and then said that if they do come to power, the alliance will not “rename” days. Well, who will tell him!

Here are some more reactions from Congress supporters which we are not able to make sense of – if you can, do let us know.

A Congress supporter named Sachin Tandon called it a “half a brain” attempt – well, even we are not sure what it means.

Here is another supporter who has written half-baked content on the announcement. They wrote, “how can it be samvidhaan hatya hen the emergency was in the constitution. has anyone in the current government actually touched the constitution or glanced through it”

Another came up with a conspiracy theory that it might actually be the BJP’s plan!

Yet another stated that provisions for the Emergency always existed in the Constitution. He also called it stupid and that the Constitution was always dynamic.

Another supporter named Rakhi Tripathi decided to call 30 January “Kaala diwas” or Black Day and wanted to announce Nathuram Godse as “independent India’s first terrorist”.

A Congress supporter who happens to be a “journalist” misunderstood HM’s post about observing the day as “Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas” and thought the government was “celebrating” the day!

(Source: X thread by Sensei Kraken Zero)

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