After the statement of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary Dattatreya Hosbale, the discussion on socialism and secularism has now stopped. This has been responded to by the Central Government during the monsoon session of Parliament. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said that there is neither many constitutional process nor the government’s intention to remove both these words.
He said that the official attitude of the government is that at present, there is no plan or intention to remove or reconsider words like ‘socialism’ and ‘secularism’ from the Preamble of the Constitution. Any discussion related to the amendment in the preamble will require extensive deliberations and consensus, but at this time the government has not started any formal process to make any changes in these provisions.
What did Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal tell?
Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has given this information in a written reply in Parliament. He said that many discussions in this regard have been done by some organizations, but no such announcement has been made by the government yet. In this case, the government is not preparing to make any changes nor any proposal is being prepared.
There was a ruckus about Dattatreya Hosbale’s statement
Explain that the entire case was started after the statement of RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosbale, in which he asked to consider the demand for the removal of socialism and secular term from the Preamble of the Constitution. He had questioned the Preamble of the Constitution and said that words like socialism and secular were added to the Indian Constitution in 1976.
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