Weighing in on the chatter over senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge today said it’s “country first for us, but for some people, it’s Modi first”.

The Emergency, imposed 50 years ago, by a despotic ruler, whose sole aim was to preserve her dynastic rule, was one of the darkest chapters in India’s history, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday.

Reza Pahlavi waited nearly five decades in exile for a moment like this. With Iran under military pressure and its regime shaken by foreign strikes, the former crown prince declared the country ripe for change.