In a biting indictment of the Emergency that was imposed on June 25, 43 years ago,
A senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, Arun Jaitley has compared the Emergency with Adolf Hitler’s dictatorial regime in Germany. He also accused former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of transforming India into a “dynastic democracy”.
Jaitley drew parallels between Emergency with what happened in Nazi Germany in 1933. He wrote in his blog, “Both Hitler and Mrs Gandhi never abrogated the Constitution. They used a republican Constitution to transform democracy into a dictatorship.”
The Congress criticised his views, calling the comparison “odious”.
Sanjay Kumar of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies disagreed with the comparison. Sanjay mentioned that had Gandhi succeeded in turning India into a dynastic democracy, then the “BJP would not have been in power”.

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