"Nothing wrong in Sena's demand for deletion of 'secular' from Preamble of Constitution. Leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and B R Ambedkar were "more intelligent" than the present day Congress leaders and did not include 'secular' and 'socialist' words in the original preamble of the Constitution":-Ravishankar Prasad
The constitution makers were no-doubt intelligent than the present political leaders.They were more faithful and trusted the future politicians that they will lead India in a proper path.
It was this blind faithfulness which they had on the future generations that led to them not finding the necessity to include the word "secular" in the Preamble for Indian Constitution.
And regarding the intelligence of constitution-makers, they were very well aware that constitution must not be so rigid, so that it can be amended suitably to adopt change and not so very flexible that some ideology-driven party securing majority in lok sabha can amend it to suit their needs.
Don't confuse "intelligence" with "blind-trust".
There is something terribly wrong with Shiv sena's demand to delete the word "secular" from the preamble and the Law minister's support to it.
1. Secularism is the basic structure of the constitution which the Judiciary has upheld in its various judgements.
2. The reason that secularism was not in the original preamble and so it can be removed is akin to demanding that the subsequent amendments(99 in total till dec 2014) also can be nullified as they amended the original constitution.
3. As already mentioned above, sorry for the trust the constitution-makers had over the future political leaders and voters.
Just like Article 356("President rule") which was introduced hoping that it would remain a dead letter but turned soon to be a deadly weapon by future leaders, likewise it seems the 'spirit' of "secularism" too will be wiped out soon from the constitution before the word "secularism" gets dropped from the preamble.
Just like Article 356("President rule") which was introduced hoping that it would remain a dead letter but turned soon to be a deadly weapon by future leaders, likewise it seems the 'spirit' of "secularism" too will be wiped out soon from the constitution before the word "secularism" gets dropped from the preamble.
4. I can understand the ruling party's zeal to implement the original constitution. Please begin with the "Directive Principles of State Policy"(Part IV) instead of the preamble. Because preamble was enacted after the rest of the constitution was enacted and it is non-justiciable and of ornamental significance.
--One civil servant wants to post this as his FB status. Is it wrong as per civil service conduct rules?? Civil servants please enlighten me
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