BJP veteran L.K Advani, one of the prominent opposition leaders jailed by the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government during the Emergency, was not invited to an event where his party honoured those who went to jail during the period.
Party president Amit Shah had earlier blamed the Emergency at the Congress party's 'dictatorial mindset', while addressing party leaders at a programme organised on the 40th anniversary of its imposition.
Indira Gandhi had declared Emergency in the country on June 25, 1975 after the Allahabad High Court and subsequently the Supreme Court found her election to the Lok Sabha 'null and void'. Formally proclaimed by then-president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, the decision to enforce the Emergency was taken without the approval of the then-union cabinet.
