Senior BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad Saturday hit out at the Congress on the Emergency and also said that the framers of the Constitution knew that Lord Ram and Krishna are the heritage of this country and not Babur or Aurangzeb. Prasad said that the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi needs to change his tutor as he is unaware of facts and suggested that he visit the Cellular jail in Andaman and Nicobar where Veer Savarkar spent 11 years. Reminding Congress’s allies that SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav were jailed and DMK government was dismissed during the Emergency, Prasad praised The Indian Express and its founder Ramnath Goenka for not accepting the censorship during the Emergency in 1975. “Electricity of all newspaper houses were cut. Censor manoge to hum manenge (it will be restored when you accept censorship). We will appreciate The Indian Express and Ramnath Goenka because he did not accept (censorship) and remained firm.” Prasad said that the original Constitution had photographs of Lord Ram returning to Ayodhya with Sita and Laxman after victory in Lanka, photos of Lord Krishna, Bajrangbali Hanuman, Mahavir, Natraja, Guru Gobind Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Akbar, but not Babur and Aurangzeb. “If the Constitution was framed today, the Opposition would have protested the insertion of such pictures in it,” he said. Prasad said, “Our heritage is Lord Ram, Krishna, Ramkrishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghosh, Lokmanya Tilak, Narayana Guru, Subramania Bharati and Mahatma Gandhi. Aurangzeb, Babur could never be our heritage.” Congress MP Kumari Selja said: “There is a conversation about the Emergency. Yes, it happened. And there were injustices. no one is denying that. An election happened and Congress and Indira Gandhi were thrown out. This is the beauty of our democracy that the same Indira Gandhi again became the PM in 1980.”
