Assam Announces Rs 15,000 A Month To Those Who Resisted Emergency
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Himanta Sarma also said that the resistance by opposition political leaders, media, lawyers and other sections of society has "ensured that no regime can ever think of imposing such restrictions again".
As the Assam government on Sunday honoured those who had resisted the Emergency imposed by then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma rued that the president, who had signed the ordinance, and the then Congress national chief were from the state.
He also said that the resistance by opposition political leaders, media, lawyers and other sections of society has "ensured that no regime can ever think of imposing such restrictions again".
Himanta Sarma was speaking at a programme organised to felicitate 300 'Loktantra senanis' and their relatives here.
"The president who signed the order was an Assamese. It was the first time that our state had gifted the nation its president, but with his hand, the order for Emergency was signed," Himanta Sarma said, referring to then President of the country Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.
