Tharoor slams President Murmu for speech on '49-yr-old' Emergency

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor severely criticized President Droupadi Murmu over the speech she delivered while addressing the joint session of Parliament. The MP said that the President should have talked about today's issues instead of things that happened 49 years ago.

President Murmu mentioned in her speech that the Emergency of 1975 was the darkest chapter among direct attacks on the Constitution. She said that India descended into chaos. However, she also stated that the country had won against such anti-constitutional forces.

Tharoor said that there is no logic in talking about the Emergency that happened 49 years ago, and he reminded me that he had not heard anything about the NEET exam or unemployment. He said no word about Manipur was heard from either President Murmu or Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their respective addresses. He suggested that border issues between India and China needed to be discussed.

"There was no logic in talking about an Emergency in the address after 49 years. She should have spoken about today's issues. We did not hear anything about the NEET exam or unemployment...The word Manipur did not come out from President Murmu or PM Modi. Issues like the India-China border should have been taken up in the address...,' ANI quoted Tharoor.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also reacted to President Murmu's address. He wrote on X, ".. listening to the President's address written by the Modi Govt, it seemed as if Modi ji is in a perpetual state of denial!". "The mandate was against him, because the people of the country rejected his slogan of "400 plus" and kept the BJP away from the figure of 272. Modi ji is unable to accept this, that is why he is pretending that nothing has changed, but the truth is that the people of the country had asked for change," Kharge wrote.