Stating that, historically, no country's preamble has ever been changed , the vice president said that the Preamble of the Indian Constitution was altered during the Emergency era when hundreds and thousands of people were behind bars
BSP supremo Mayawati cautioned both the BJP and the Congress over what she called an increasing debate surrounding the Constitution.
RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale advocated the removal of the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’, a suggestion that has found support from Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Dhankhar criticised the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government for changing the Preamble of the Indian Constitution during the Emergency in 1976.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday urged the Union Government to drop the words “Secular” and “Socialist” from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.
The chief minister inaugurated a seminar on the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, the 'Black Chapter of Indian Democracy' held here on the Constitution Day.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar while hearing the petitions observed that being socialist in the Indian sense is understood only to be a "welfare state."
Opposing Swamy’s plea, Member of Rajya Sabha and the Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Binoy Viswam in his impleadment application has told the top court that both 'secularism and socialism' are inherent to the basic features of the Constitution.
On Friday, A writ petition was filed by former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy seeking deletion of the words 'Socialism' and 'Secularism' from the Preamble to the constitution.
Addressing national symposium ‘Spirit of Constitution in 75th year of Indian Independence’ at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, he said the Preamble was a guide for the nation on the basis of the basic features of the Constitution.
