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.
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.
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.
In a sharp critique of the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday accused the party of tampering with the Preamble and "strangling" the Constitution.
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.
Swamiji had, however, little faith in politics since it often reduced men to brutes who ‘in the name of politics rob others and fatten themselves by sucking the very life blood of the masses‘. None could deny this, looking at what is presently happening at various levels. Indeed, it is imaginable what therefore would have been his reaction had he seen politics suffused with lies and lust for power as it is today in this country.
Addition of the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the Preamble added nothing of substance to the Constitution, argue G.L. VERMA
The resurgence of the far-right in Spain, as in Germany, would have been greeted with a degree of modified satisfaction by General Franco.
