<p>New Delhi: The BJP government in Delhi will provide pensions to those who were political prisoners during the Emergency and felicitate them, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>She said this at an event held at the Delhi Secretariat to provide job letters to the kin of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims.</p>.<p>Previous governments did not provide any relief to those who were kept in jails for months to safeguard democracy during the Emergency imposed in the country, Gupta said.</p>.Delhi CM Rekha Gupta inaugurates power substation at Manglapuri.<p>"Our government has decided to provide pensions to the loktantra senanis (political prisoners). They will be felicitated and honoured by the Delhi government as many others states do," she said.</p>.<p>The Congress government in the country imposed national emergency under the Constituional provision of Article 352, during 1975-77.</p>.<p>Several states in the country, including those ruled by the BJP like UP and MP, provide pensions to those who were jailed during the Emergency in 1975-77.</p>.<p>Many BJP leaders and politicians of other opposition parties were imprisoned during the Emergency declared by the then Congress government of Indira Gandhi.</p>.<p>The Delhi unit of BJP on March 21 this year felicitated Emergency detainees at a 'Loktantra Vijay Divas' event held at the New Delhi Municipal Council's convention centre.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The BJP government in Delhi will provide pensions to those who were political prisoners during the Emergency and felicitate them, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>She said this at an event held at the Delhi Secretariat to provide job letters to the kin of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims.</p>.<p>Previous governments did not provide any relief to those who were kept in jails for months to safeguard democracy during the Emergency imposed in the country, Gupta said.</p>.Delhi CM Rekha Gupta inaugurates power substation at Manglapuri.<p>"Our government has decided to provide pensions to the loktantra senanis (political prisoners). They will be felicitated and honoured by the Delhi government as many others states do," she said.</p>.<p>The Congress government in the country imposed national emergency under the Constituional provision of Article 352, during 1975-77.</p>.<p>Several states in the country, including those ruled by the BJP like UP and MP, provide pensions to those who were jailed during the Emergency in 1975-77.</p>.<p>Many BJP leaders and politicians of other opposition parties were imprisoned during the Emergency declared by the then Congress government of Indira Gandhi.</p>.<p>The Delhi unit of BJP on March 21 this year felicitated Emergency detainees at a 'Loktantra Vijay Divas' event held at the New Delhi Municipal Council's convention centre.</p>