New Delhi: Railway Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday justified the imposition of Emergency in 1975 saying, “it was necessary for curbing indiscipline in the country and creating national leaders like me.”
“Indiscipline like recent utterances by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackarey against President A P J Abdul Kalam can be curbed through emergency only,” Lalu asserted.
The Railway Minister also reiterated that if need arose emergency could be imposed again.
Adding more steam to his argument, Lalu said if Emergency had not have been imposed he could not have become a leader.
“If Emergency had not been imposed then I would have never been a political leader,” Lalu said pompously.
Lalu, who was jailed during the Emergency, dropped another bombshell by saying he was the author of the complete revolution, which is generally credited to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan.
“It was me not J P who authored that movement of youths. As the president of student union I handed over the movement to J P later,” Lalu claimed.
Elaborating his justification of emergency further, Lalu said, “Emergency has produced many leaders including me who are presently ruling the roost. Even those presently ruling Bihar were born out of Emergency.”
(With inputs from UNI)
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