Patna: Facing attacks from the Congress for being non-democratic, the BJP is going to take the fight to its political rival on the same issue by raking up the Emergency issue.

The party would organise an event on June 26 to mark the anniversary of the Emergency imposed in the country by then Congress government at the Centre on June 25, 1975, party deputy chief whip in the state Assembly and Kumhrar MLA Arun Kumar Sinha shared this at a news meet here on Friday. "Congress president Rahul Gandhi is trying to mislead the nation by accusing a democratically elected government at the Centre of being non-democratic. The time is ripe to show mirror to the party whose government had imposed Emergency in the country," Sinha said.

Senior party leaders, including deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi and road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav, are scheduled to take part in the event. The Kumhrar MLA said the event would also help in educating the younger generation, particularly those who were born after 1975, about the "black chapter" of Emergency, which was imposed by then Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi. Sinha had taken part in the JP Movement launched by late Jayaprakash Narayan and he was also jailed during the Emergency.

The BJP would organise similar events in the districts on the same day. Senior party leader Kiran Ghai spoke on Emergency saying the issue has become topical as the party (read Congress) that had been responsible for the Emergency was talking of curtailment of freedom in the country. "No one has forgotten how power had been centralised in one person during the Emergency," she said.