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The 12th General Assembly of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABCP) is scheduled to take place on January 17 and 18 in New Delhi, India. The assembly is expected to witness the presence of Indian Vice President, Jagdeep Dhankhar, who will inaugurate the event in the company of Minister of Earth Sciences, Kiren Rijiju. The assembly follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, with the third conference in 1974 resulting in the "New Delhi Declaration," presided over by the then president of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

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Emergency was imposed on this day in 1975 by the then-Congress government led by prime minister Indira Gandhi.

The BJP's strong recall of the Emergency came days after the opposition parties, including the Congress, in Patna accused the Modi-led government of "trampling democratic rights" and "undermining democratic institutions".

Modi, his cabinet colleagues recalled "dark days" of Emergency, describing those days as an "unforgettable period" in the country's history.