New Delhi [India], June 25 (NT): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday demanded an admission of guilt from the grand old party Congress for using the slogan 'India is Indira and Indira is India' for the duration of emergency in 1975.

"During Emergency, Congress's then-president gave the slogan 'India is Indira and Indira is India'. For those who understand Hinduism and Hindutva, the country is only 'Bharat Mata', but for Congress 'India is Indira'. Till now they have not apologized for this slogan," BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi was quoted by ANI saying at a press conference here.

 On a related note, the BJP is observing the 1975 Emergency Anniversary today as a 'Black Day'.

June 25 marks the day when Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared a state of emergency in the country.

Senior BJP leaders have often showed the aggression over the Congress for taking move which branding it as undemocratic and intolerant.

 Worth mention here an emergency was declared for a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

This was officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352 of the Constitution due of the prevailing "internal disturbance" .The Emergency was in effect from June 25, 1975, until its extraction on March 21, 1977.

The order vested upon the Prime Minister the right to rule by the announcement, allowing elections to be postponed and civil liberties to be restricted.

The final decision to impose an emergency was proposed by Indira Gandhi, agreed upon by the president of India, and thereafter approved by the cabinet and the parliament (from July to August 1975), based on the underlying principle that there were pending internal and external threats to the Indian state.

The Emergency is considered to be one of the most divisive periods of independent India's past.