PM Modi addresses nation, talks of Emergency and India’s disaster management systems

New Delhi, 18th June 2023: Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the Emergency was a dark period in the country’s history, during which atrocities were perpetrated against individuals who supported democracy.

He said that India is the mother of democracy, that democratic values and the Constitution are supreme, and that “we cannot forget June 25 when Emergency was imposed on us.”

Indira Gandhi, the then-prime minister, declared a state of Emergency in 1975.

Modi also praised India’s growing ability to deal with natural catastrophes in his Mann Ki Baat radio programme, expressing optimism that the people of Kutch will rapidly recover from the destruction wrought by Cyclone Biparjoy.

According to the prime minister, people had raised worries about Kutch’s ability to recover following the terrible earthquake two decades ago. But the people of Kutch recovered from the disaster, he said.

PM Modi also said that India’s disaster management capability has increased in the last few years and is becoming an example.

The prime minister said he is holding his ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio broadcast on June 18 instead of the last Sunday of the month as he will be travelling to the United States next week.

Modi said he will participate in the International Yoga Day programme at the UN headquarters in New York during his visit.