<p>Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said home confinement of people in order to cope with the rising COVID-19 cases was legitimate, but the Emergency in 1975 was "illegitimate" as people were deprived of all fundamental rights.</p>.<p>"What is the worth of life if there is no right to life," he said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>"If the present confinement was induced by coronavirus, the one I am talking about was triggered by the rampant corruption in public life and the national resentment against the same," he said.</p>.<p>He said three months back, people volunteered to confine themselves to home to ward off the looming threat of coronavirus.</p>.<p>"We preferred to mask ourselves and restrict our movements for the good of all. During this short period, we realised what it means to be confined. This legitimate confinement is a sharp contrast to the one that the nation was subjected to this day 45 years back in the name of a contrived threat to the country's security from internal disturbance," Naidu said.</p>.<p>During that "illegitimate confinement" for a long period of 21 months, the citizens were deprived of all fundamental rights, including the Right to Life, he said.</p>.<p>There was total erosion of values in public life, he said, adding that corruption was rampant.</p>.<p>"Intolerance to a different opinion reached its peak. All this was a manifestation of insecurity. The Constitution was nearly abandoned. The right of judicial review of government's decisions was done away with," the vice president wrote in his Facebook post.</p>.<p>In a nutshell, Naidu said, it was total darkness.</p>.<p>Recalling his days in jail, he said the confinement resulted in extensive political education through individual and group discussions, question and answer sessions.</p>.<p>"This was in contrast to online education, the feature of the present corona-induced confinement," he said.</p>
<p>Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said home confinement of people in order to cope with the rising COVID-19 cases was legitimate, but the Emergency in 1975 was "illegitimate" as people were deprived of all fundamental rights.</p>.<p>"What is the worth of life if there is no right to life," he said in a Facebook post.</p>.<p>"If the present confinement was induced by coronavirus, the one I am talking about was triggered by the rampant corruption in public life and the national resentment against the same," he said.</p>.<p>He said three months back, people volunteered to confine themselves to home to ward off the looming threat of coronavirus.</p>.<p>"We preferred to mask ourselves and restrict our movements for the good of all. During this short period, we realised what it means to be confined. This legitimate confinement is a sharp contrast to the one that the nation was subjected to this day 45 years back in the name of a contrived threat to the country's security from internal disturbance," Naidu said.</p>.<p>During that "illegitimate confinement" for a long period of 21 months, the citizens were deprived of all fundamental rights, including the Right to Life, he said.</p>.<p>There was total erosion of values in public life, he said, adding that corruption was rampant.</p>.<p>"Intolerance to a different opinion reached its peak. All this was a manifestation of insecurity. The Constitution was nearly abandoned. The right of judicial review of government's decisions was done away with," the vice president wrote in his Facebook post.</p>.<p>In a nutshell, Naidu said, it was total darkness.</p>.<p>Recalling his days in jail, he said the confinement resulted in extensive political education through individual and group discussions, question and answer sessions.</p>.<p>"This was in contrast to online education, the feature of the present corona-induced confinement," he said.</p>