New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today released a book, titled ‘The Emergency Diaries – Years that Forged a Leader’, a compilation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s experiences during the anti-Emergency movement, at an event to mark ‘Savidhan Hatya Diwas’.
In his address, Shah said this book mentions Narendra Modi’s work as a young Sangh Pracharak during the Emergency, how he fought by remaining underground during the 19-month-long movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan and Nanaji Deshmukh, a Home Ministry statement said.
The book details how he went to the homes of people jailed under the MISA Act and talked to their families and arranged for their treatment. The book describes Modi distributed many newspapers published secretly in markets, squares, among students and women, and that he led the struggle as a 25-year-old youth of Gujarat, Shah said.
He said that Modi used to work underground at that time, sometimes as a saint, sometimes as a Sardarji, sometimes as a hippie, sometimes as an incense stick seller or sometimes as a newspaper seller.
“The Emergency was imposed to re-instate dynastic politics, but Modi went door-to-door, village-to-village and city-to-city to protest against it, and finally he uprooted the dynastic politics from the entire country in 2014,” the Home Minister said.
He said that there are five chapters in this book on media censorship, government repression, the struggle of the Sangh and Jansangh, description of the victims of the Emergency and from dictatorship to public participation.
Shah appealed to the youth of the country to read this book so that they can know that the youth who fought against the dictatorship in his early days is the same youth who is strengthening the roots of democracy in this country, and he is Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Present on the occasion were Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta among others.
UNI
