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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has hit out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre for using the Emergency as a tactic to \u2018divert\u2019 from real issues like NEET paper leaks, the situation in Manipur and unemployment. Tharoor, the fourth-term Congress Member of Parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram, asked why it was relevant to \u2018dregde up\u2019 something that happened 49 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The former Union Minister also said while the imposition of Emergency in 1975 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi may have been \u2018undemocratic,\u2019 it was strictly \u2018within the boundaries of the Constitution.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“I am a critic of the Emergency\u2026 but the very fact is that the Emergency may have been undemocratic, but it was not unconstitutional. It was a provision in the Constitution that permitted the imposition of an internal emergency. That provision has since been removed since but it was there at that time,” Tharoor told NDTV in an interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tharoor was referring to resolution read out by the by newly elected Speaker Om Birla in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday condemning the imposition of Emergency in 1975. Birla also called that it was a direct attack to the Constitution by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a remark that invited criticism from Opposition Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n