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President’s speech: Slams Emergency, defends EVMs
Updated On: 28 June, 2024 08:27 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
It is like cutting the very branch on which “we all are sitting”, she said
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President Droupadi Murmu with VP Jagdeep Dhankhar, PM Narendra Modi, Speaker Om Birla and Union Minister Kiren Rijiju at the Parliament House complex before her address. Pic/PTI
President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday stressed the government’s unwavering faith in the Constitution and efforts to make it a part of “public consciousness”, while slamming the Emergency as the “biggest and darkest chapter of direct attack” on the Constitution.
In her first address to a joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha after Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his third term, she described the poll result as an endorsement of his government’s policies while ruing attempts to hurt people’s faith in electoral process, including EVMs- an apparent swipe at opposition parties. It is like cutting the very branch on which “we all are sitting”, she said.
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