SP, BSP warn against BJP’s alleged bid to remove ‘Secularism’ and ‘Socialism’ from Constitution’s Preamble
BSP supremo Mayawati cautioned both the BJP and the Congress over what she called an increasing debate surrounding the Constitution.
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.
"This proposal exposes the RSS’s long-standing objective of subverting the Constitution and its intent to transform India into a Hindu Rashtra, in pursuit of its Hindutva project,"CPI (M) said on Friday.
Addition of the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the Preamble added nothing of substance to the Constitution, argue G.L. VERMA
While the extent of the Congress party's commitment to secularism needs to be qualified, regional parties follow contrasting trajectories. For instance, regional heavyweights have oscillated between secular discourse and not-so-secular practices. Some of them left the BJP-led NDA coalition after violence erupted against Muslims and Christians, but these parties have rejoined the BJP alliance when it has suited them politically
Rao said he has spoken to his counterparts in other states and he might convene a conclave of regional parties and Chief Ministers to oppose the CAA since it concerns the country's future.
Speaking at the National Cadet Corps or NCC Republic Day Camp in Delhi, Singh said, 'We (India) said we would not discriminate among religions. Why did we do that? Our neighbouring country has declared that their state has a religion. They have declared themselves a theocratic state. We didn't declare so.'
Amid rising cases of mob-lynching and culprits roaming free with impunity, Alice Wells reminded India that its Constitution mandates a secular state that upholds the rights of all citizens to practice religion freely, freedom of expression and speech, and equal treatment before the law.
