BJP sees parallel with Hitler, Indira in Pakistan
The BJP saw crucial parallels between Musharraf’s decision to impose emergency in his country, the usurpation of dictatorial powers by Adolf Hitler in Germanyand India’s brush with a similar situation during 1975-77.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Sunday saw crucial parallels between Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s decision to impose emergency in his country, the usurpation of dictatorial powers by Adolf Hitler in Germany in the early part of the previous century and India’s brush with a similar situation during 1975-77, when late Indira Gandhi clamped emergency in the country, even as it expressed its serious concern over the developments in Islamabad.
“The developments in the past 24 hours in Pakistan have become a matter of international concern. The concern in India is greater since Pakistan is our immediate neighbour,” observed BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley.
For the BJP leader, there were important similarities between the latest developments in Pakistan and India’s tryst with emergency. “For the people of India, particularly for those who were either born or grew up after 1975, the emerging situation in Pakistan is a replica of what India had gone through during the internal emergency.
It is ironical that developments in Pakistan took place on a day when the president of the Congress, which was responsible for the tyranny of emergency in 1975, was accusing the BJP of being heartless and lacking concern for the people,” Mr Jaitley said.
The common thread running through the emergencies in the three countries at various points of time in history, he maintained, was an in-built desire in the proclaimer to perpetuate personal power, usurp absolute power, eliminate all possibilities of losing that power and intolerance towards any form of criticism.
“The developments in the past 24 hours in Pakistan have become a matter of international concern. The concern in India is greater since Pakistan is our immediate neighbour,” observed BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley.
For the BJP leader, there were important similarities between the latest developments in Pakistan and India’s tryst with emergency. “For the people of India, particularly for those who were either born or grew up after 1975, the emerging situation in Pakistan is a replica of what India had gone through during the internal emergency.
It is ironical that developments in Pakistan took place on a day when the president of the Congress, which was responsible for the tyranny of emergency in 1975, was accusing the BJP of being heartless and lacking concern for the people,” Mr Jaitley said.
The common thread running through the emergencies in the three countries at various points of time in history, he maintained, was an in-built desire in the proclaimer to perpetuate personal power, usurp absolute power, eliminate all possibilities of losing that power and intolerance towards any form of criticism.
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