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Drawing flak from various quarters over the intolerance row, the federal government today slammed the opposition and cited Hitler’s actions in Germany in 1930s to hit out at the Congress. 
 Speaking in Rajya Sabha, India’s <keyword id="6391015" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Finance-Minister-Arun-Jaitley">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley</keyword> said Emergency was imposed by "subverting" the Constitution. He added that during Emergency, "dictatorship was at its worst" as even right to life and liberty was suspended. 
 
Initiating a discussion on the 'Commitment to India's Constitution', Jaitley stressed measures are needed to be taken to strengthen the Constitution and ensure that democracy is not subverted again. 
 
Addressing the House, Jaitley narrated the sequence of events that took place in Hitler's regime, suggesting that these were replicated by Indira Gandhi who imposed Emergency in 1975. 
 
"There are worst illustrations in history when Constitutional systems are used to subvert the Constitution... You have the most glaring example in the world when in 1933 in Germany Emergency was declared," he said. 
 
Jaitley added Hitler, using the pretext of a threat to "set ablaze the German Parliament", imposed Emergency, detained opposition to gain majority for amending the Constitution, censured the press and came out with a 25-point economic programme. 
 
"You impose Emergency, detain opposition, amend the Constitution, impose censorship on newspapers and announce a 25-point economic programme. 
 
"Thereafter, you brought a law that no action taken by government was justiciable in court and then Hitler's immediate adviser Rudolf Hess in his speech ended by a sentence that 'Adolf Hitler is Germany, Germany is Adolf Hitler'," he said. 
 
Though he said he was only referring to the events of 1933 in Germany, Jaitley was apparently citing similarities to actions during Indira Gandhi's regime when it was said 'Indira is India, India is Indira'. 
 
"What happened in other parts of the world later, Germany never claimed a copyright," the finance minister said.

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The internal conflict in the ruling party at Centre is at its peak and the <keyword id="6355261" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Finance-minister">finance minister</keyword> of India has tried his best to defend his party. A major controversy broke out recently after BJP patriarch LK Advani expressed concerns that "forces that can crush democracy are stronger" now and that Emergency-like situation could emerge again. The comments were seen by the Congress as being aimed at <keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">Prime Minister</keyword> <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>, while <keyword id="6354944" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Aam-Aadmi-Party">Aam Aadmi Party</keyword> felt it was the "first indictment" of Modi's politics. 
 <keyword id="25455" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="finance">Finance</keyword> Minister <keyword id="42575" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arun-Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</keyword> has told the news agency PTI, it is not possible today for the world's largest democracy to become 'dictatorial'. 
 
Jaitley said Emergency was a phase which showed that a democracy can be converted into a dictatorship by using some provisions of the Constitution and all the major institutions like bureaucracy, police, media and judiciary can collapse. 
 
"I think, today the global awareness is in favour of the democracy and the kind of sanctions which can be imposed on a dictatorship itself can be a deterrent. 
 
"I think, the media is also strong, the polity is strong and the global institutions are also strong. The world would not accept the world's largest democracy becoming dictatorial today," Jaitley told the agency. 
 
Without referring to Advani's comments, Jaitley said the media censorship is not possible today "because of the technology itself". 
 
"You have news travelling through the internand the internet can't be censored," Jaitley said. 
 
Jaitley also added that the polity was strong even during the Emergency, but "the media had by and large caved in". 
 
Recalling his own experiences from the Emergency days, Jaitley said he hopes that "the judiciary today is far more independent and does not cave in to any dictatorial tendencies as it caved in during emergency". 
 
"But the fact that detentions are no longer possible without a basis, media censorship is no longer possible and hopefully judiciary would be far more independent, it would not be possible for anybody to convert a democracy into a dictatorship without these three limbs," he said. 
 
Jaitley said the tradition of dynasty and dynastic political parties started with Emergency. Recalling his experience during the emergency days of <keyword id="6354478" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indira-Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</keyword>, Jaitley told the media, "So we burnt an effigy of Indira Gandhi and thereafter I was arrested as part of the protest. I was first kept in Tihar Jail, then taken to Ambala and brought back to Delhi. The police detained me under MISA."

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The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>, created history in the just-concluded elections by becoming the first party since 1984 (the year Indira Gandhi was assassinated) to win majority on its own. The exit polls had predicted a Modi tsunami but it turned out to be a tsuNaMo. 
 The only chunk in the armour for the <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> was the defeat of Arun Jaitley from Amritsar. Jaitley was widely speculated to get a major portfolio in the next government (probably the finance ministry). However, he might find a Cabinet berth despite losing the <keyword id="6359191" type="EVENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="election">election</keyword> as Rajnath Singh has said that “the party would fully utilise his abilities.” 
 The <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword>’ entire India tally was reduced to a meagre 44, which is way below the BJP’s tally of 71 from UP alone. The drubbing was so massive that the ruling party could not even manage to get 55 seats (10% of the total number of Lok Sabha seats) required to nominate the leader of opposition. 
 
The decimated Congress failed to open its account in as many as nine states – Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Goa. On the other hand, the BJP, riding on the Modi wave, conquered all the seats in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Goa. 
 
With such a strong mandate in his favour, now Modi needs to live up to the expectations of the people and usher in all round development and good governance. Modi showed his humble side after his victory. Addressing his supporters in Vadodara, Modi spoke about taking everyone along and gave the mantra of “sabka sath, sabka vikaas.” 
 
The most positive outcome of the result has been the fact that the new government will not be constrained by or subjected to blackmailing by the coalition partners. The outgoing Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had often referred to coalition compulsions and admitted that he had to make some compromises in the name of coalition dharma. 
 
Any analysis of the election results would remain incomplete without a special mention of Uttar Pradesh, where people rejected caste-based politics, reducing Mayawati’s BSP to nought. It shows that voters have become aspirational and can no longer be swayed by empty caste rhetoric and symbolism. However, it would be premature to write her off completely as her party, though could not win any seat, managed to get a vote share of 19.6%. 
 In Bihar too, the Modi wave shattered Lalu’s dream of making a comeback and he could not increase his party’s 2009 tally of just four seats. <keyword id="6358190" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nitish-Kumar">Nitish Kumar</keyword>’s JD (U) also faced a rout and could win just two seats. Following this, he put in his papers on ‘moral grounds’. However, it seems more of a face-saving exercise as there were reports of growing discontent within his party. Now, JD (U) President Sharad Yadav has extended a lifeline to Lalu by signalling an alliance between the arch rivals. 
 The results also show Congress Vice-President <keyword id="5268" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rahul-Gandhi">Rahul Gandhi</keyword>’s growing disconnect with the masses over the years. When scams after scams propped up during UPA II, he seemed oblivious to it. Neither he nor outgoing PM Manmohan Singh ever took any step to crack down on graft. Gandhi never talked to the media on uncomfortable issues and was seen as a leader who refused to own up responsibility. 
 
The BJP had undergone a transition within the party before the polls as it required a new face after the debacle under LK Advani. The Congress, too, after successive debacles under Rahul Gandhi, needs to look for a new face with fresh ideas.

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<ul><li><keyword id="129243" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nirmala-Sitharaman">Nirmala Sitharaman</keyword> is back in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Union Cabinet as he takes office for the second-term.</li><li>Sitharaman, who previously held the Ministry of Defence, has been given the <keyword id="156153" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Finance">Ministry of Finance</keyword> and Ministry of Corporate Affairs.</li></ul>Nirmala Sitharaman was once again sworn in in the Cabinet ministry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sitharaman who took oath in the 6th position, was given the Finance Ministry in the Modi cabinet. She has also been given the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. She will be taking over Arun Jaitley, who served as the Finance Minister, in Modi's first term and had written a letter to the PM asking to be excused from ministerial duty this time due to health issues. Sitharaman is one of the three women in PM Modi’s 25-member cabinet. Sitharaman made history when she was announced to be India’s first full-time Defence Minister in 2017. Now, with the position of Finance Minister she becomes India’s second female finance minister, after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She held the position of Defence Minister as tensions escalated between India and Pakistan during the Pulwama terror attack. She has been a member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2016 and from Andhra Pradesh from 2014-2016. She was also the spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2010-2014. A graduate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, when Sitharaman lived in London she also worked as saleswoman before going on to join PriceWaterhouseCooper before finally joining politics in India.

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