Written By B D Narayankar
Q: Is inclusion of the term secular in Preamble necessary?
SocraticNarayankar: For me, it is wholly unnecessary because the framers of the Indian Constitution had not included the term 'secular' in the Preamble. It was needlessly included by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi through 42nd amendment in 1976.
India has always been secular - or else Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam would not have have been received with open arms and allowed them to practise their religions.
Also, the Preamble already speaks of securing to its citizens the liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship.
So, if you have the liberty of belief, faith and worship, you are a secular state.
So, what the fuss about?
Q: Why the so-called secularists making an issue out of it?
SoctraticNarayankar: Because it will make their survival a bit difficult as they gain political dividends by playing on the sentiments of the people using the podium of secularism.
Secularists - Congress, the Leftists and the Centrists - did the same and doing it till date. They divide Hindus and Muslims under the garb of secularism to create a vote-bank, all in the name of secularism and minority welfare.
Ironically though, they keep on accusing others as communal. The party who cries of hijacking its leaders from its stable, hardly practise what they stood for. They brazenly, without blinking an eyelid, crush the principles of Bapu - Mahatma Gandhi - who dreamt of religious amity and casteless Indian society.
Q: What's your opinion on media stand on this issue?
SocraticNarayankar: Why media goes big when BJP does the same what Congress does?
The media did not go big when the same ad issued by the then I&B Minister Manish Tewari carried a picture of the preamble without the word secular.
This only reflects media's double standards or boasting of pseudo-secuarism!
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