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Emergency catapulted BJP into politics: Jairam Ramesh
Emergency catapulted BJP into politics: Jairam. Emergency ‘disastrously’ gave ‘democratic credentials’ to RSS by bringing it into the mainstream of Indian politics, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said here on Tuesday.
Hyderabad: Emergency ‘disastrously’ gave ‘democratic credentials’ to RSS by bringing it into the mainstream of Indian politics, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said here on Tuesday.
Terming its imposition as a ‘wrong’ move by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Ramesh said his personal view was that Emergency brought disrepute to the Congress for having ‘killed’ Parliamentary democracy and gave democratic credentials to people like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Arun Jaitley “who are not natural democrats”.
“What Emergency did disastrously for Indian politics was to bring the RSS into the mainstream of Indian politics. And the Emergency gave democratic credentials to people like Modi and Jaitley who are not natural democrats,” the former Union minister told a news agency.
