External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has criticised the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi for their alleged hypocrisy regarding constitutional values, pointing to their failure to apologise for the Emergency. He accused them of flashing the Constitution without truly respecting its spirit, highlighting the Emergency as a dark period where national spirit was suppressed.
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