'Didn't Get Parole For My Mother's Last Rites During Emergency': Rajnath Singh Hits Back At 'Tanashahi' Charge

Rajnath Singh spoke about how Congress, that imposed Emergency, accuses BJP of ‘tanashahi’.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched a scathing attack at the Congress over the Emergency of 1975 imposed by then prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In an interview with news agency ANI, Singh turned emotional while responding to a question on Emergency and said that he could not even attend his mother’s last rites after she died due to brain hemmorhage then.

“I was not given parole to attend my mother’s last rites during the Emergency, and now they (Congress) call us dictators. I could not even meet her during her final days when she was admitted in the hospital for 27 days,” Singh said.

“People who imposed dictatorship through Emergency are accusing us of dictatorship,” he added, explaining how he was arrested at that time for “raising awareness about Emergency.”

‘India Can Help Pakistan Curb Terror’

When asked about his ‘ghus ke maarenge’ comment in Pakistan in a recent interview with Network18, Rajnath Singh said that India won’t tolerate terrorism from Pakistan.

He also said that India was ready to help Pakistan curb terror. “If Pakistan feels incapable of curbing terrorism, they should take India’s help. India is ready to cooperate to stop terrorism,” Singh told ANI.

Last week, in an interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Singh had said that the government will give a befitting reply to any terrorist who tries to disturb peace in India.

“If he [terrorist] flees to Pakistan, we will follow him and take him down on Pakistani soil. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken the truth… India has the capability and Pakistan has also started understanding that,” Singh had said when asked about a report in UK newspaper The Guardian that claimed the Indian government ordered assassinations in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists on foreign soil.