<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On the 43rd anniversary of Emergency today, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a direct attack on  Constitutional ideals. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In a tweet, Mr Modi while referring to Union Minister Arun Jaitley's blogs on emergency said, Mr Jaitley writes about the dark days of the Emergency, the trampling of personal liberties, excesses committed and how the Emergency was a direct attack on our Constitutional ideals.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In a tweet, BJP president Amit Shah alleged that the Congress had murdered democracy for its political interests merely to remain in power as it reduced the Supreme Court to a mute spectator, made Parliament passive and silenced the media. He termed the emergency as a black day in Indian democracy.</div>