Lucknow, June 25 (UNI) Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Brajesh Pathak on Saturday said the interests of the Gandhi family were always kept above the interests of the party and the country in the Congress party and imposing emergency was the part of this policy.
Addressing a function organised to felicitate Loktantra Rakshak Senani at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state headquarters, Pathak said, "In the greed of power a family imposed emergency on the country. The emergency imposed by Congress 47 years ago was the biggest and cowardly attack on the country's democracy."
He said during emergency people were treated worse than the British rule, those who opposed this decision were severely tortured and lakhs of people were imprisoned for no reason. "Censorship was imposed on the press and the courts," he said.