Tiwari felicitates victims of Emergency

New Delhi, June 25

BJP's Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari today felicitated people who had been arrested in Delhi for protesting against the government during the 1975-77 Emergency.

Honouring the "Loktantra Senanis" (soldiers of democracy) at the BJP state office here, Tiwari advocated that this programme needs to be organised at a larger level from next year onwards, so that future generations would not forget about the "Emergency sufferers".

While speaking at a function to felicitate party workers and social activists detained during the Emergency period in 1975-77, he said that before June 25 next year the detainees of Emergency will be given certificates.

Tiwari promised so, as some of the social activists and party workers present at the function informed them that even after passage of 42 years, they were yet to get acknowledgement for their sacrifice.

Criticising the AAP government in Delhi for not hearing the Emergency sufferers, Tiwari said he would take help from the Centre in this regard.

The BJP chief said the detainees during the Emergency acted as saviours of democracy.—PTI