Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru called for freedom, but his daughter Indira Gandhi destroyed the same by imposing Emergency 41 years back.
“Once Nehru ji said, ‘At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom’.
But 26 years later, the freedom and life was destroyed when Emergency was declared in India by his daughter,” Goyal said while addressing a gathering here.
“If ever our democracy is under threat people won’t bare it, I believe we all will fight for it,” he added.
ANI