New Delhi: The internal Emergency imposed in 1975 was the "biggest blow" to Indian democracy, but it also led to the birth of a new political generation in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, as he paid tributes to Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary.

The prime minister also paid tribute to Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader and social activist Nanaji Deshmukh: "On his birth anniversary, my tributes to the great Nanaji Deshmukh."