New Delhi, March 26 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shared a series of posts on social media recalling key historical events, strongly criticising past Congress governments while framing them as lessons for India's democracy.

In a detailed post marking March 21, 1977, the party described the end of the Emergency as "the darkest era in independent India's history," stating, "For 21 long months, Bharat had lived in fear... Voices were silenced, newspapers were mutilated by censorship, and the Constitution itself was bent to serve one family's hunger for power."

Slamming the then Congress during the Emergency, the post added, "This was not governance. This was the systematic dismantling of democracy by a party that could not tolerate d...