‘Banned Dev Anand, Kishore Kumar’: PM Modi Targets Congress Over Emergency In Rajya Sabha – News18

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PM Modi took goal on the Congress management underneath the primary Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, for imposing restrictions on press freedom

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday whereas talking in Rajya Sabha focused the Congress celebration and referred to among the movie trade’s artists together with Kishore Kumar, Dev Anand, and Balraj Sahni, amongst others.

“Throughout Nehru ji’s tenure because the PM, a employees strike was held in Mumbai. Throughout that strike, the well-known poet Majrooh Sultanpuri recited a poet. After this, he was put in jail. Well-known actor Balraj Sahni was additionally jailed solely as a result of he participated in a protest demonstration on the time. Hridaynath Mangeshkar Ji, brother of Lata MangeshkarJi, had written a poem on Veer Savarkar and needed to sing it on Akashvani however was banned from Akashvani for all times,” PM Modi mentioned.

“Dev Anand was requested to assist the Emergency publicly. Nonetheless, he clearly refused,” PM Modi mentioned He confirmed braveness, and subsequently, all of the movies of Dev Anand have been banned on Doordarshan,” PM Modi added.

“Anticipating ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ from Congress shall be an enormous mistake. It’s past their considering and it additionally doesn’t swimsuit their roadmap as a result of the entire celebration is devoted solely to at least one household. In Congress mannequin, the very first thing is Household First”. Their vitality was spent on this. Immediately, makes an attempt are being made to unfold caste poison within the society…For a few years, OBC MPs from all events had been demanding constitutional standing for the OBC Panel. However their demand was rejected, because it won’t have suited their (Congress) politics. However we gave constitutional standing to this panel,” he added.

He additionally took goal on the Congress management underneath the primary Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, for imposing restrictions on press freedom whereas presenting themselves as champions of democracy.

The Prime Minister additionally recalled how MPs like George Fernandes have been handcuffed and imprisoned in the course of the Emergency. Modi described how the Congress authorities turned the nation right into a jail to keep up the royal household’s energy.

(With company inputs)

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