Overview

• The Union Cabinet observed two minutes of silence and adopted a resolution honouring those who resisted the Emergency and highlighting its subversion of democratic institutions
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the 1975–77 Emergency one of India’s darkest democratic episodes and posted on X about the suspension of rights and the 42nd Amendment
• Home Minister Amit Shah released a book titled 'The Emergency Diaries: Years That Forged a Leader' to spotlight Modi’s grassroots resistance and critique Congress’ motives in imposing the Emergency
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other senior leaders described the Emergency as a nefarious attempt to strangle dissent and rolled out nationwide educational outreach under Samvidhan Hatya Diwas
• Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and other opposition figures dismissed the commemoration as political theatre, accusing the government of enforcing an undeclared emergency today