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No current plan to remove ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ from Preamble: Law Minister
July 25, 2025 9:19 am
The minister’s statement comes a month after RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said at an event that a discussion was merited on the words “socialist” and “secular”, which were added to the Preamble during the Emergency.
RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale questions ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ in Preamble: Why the words were inserted in 1976
June 27, 2025 2:42 pm
Multiple legal challenges have been filed over the years against the inclusion of the words. Just last year, the Supreme Court upheld them in a verdict. Here is why.
Congress introduced one-way secularism in country: BJP’s Tejasvi Surya in LS
December 15, 2024 2:10 am
‘A Muslim could be Muslim, a Christian could be Christian but a Hindu had to be secular’ according to Congress, he says
Hijab-wearing woman from Aurangabad becomes student union leader in UK university
March 24, 2022 7:35 pm
Sabahat Khan who is pursuing her post-graduation in public health, won with more than 2,500 votes out of a total of 6,900 votes.
Yechury laments Article 370 and electoral bond pleas are pending with apex court
March 25, 2022 8:34 am
The CPM chief calls for a ‘broadest possible secular’ front to save the Constitution as ‘India is down on all parameters’ and has been classified as an 'electoral autocracy’.
Secular socialist
September 15, 2020 12:08 am
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh may be remembered most for MGNREGA, which he piloted as minister in UPA 1 government.
Lessons in bigotry
December 18, 2018 12:15 am
The Meghalaya high court judge’s judgment was legally flawed and historically misleading. It violates the provisions of the citizenship law and makes a case for India as a country of, and for, Hindus.
Will Sabarimala rewrite the Kerala secular story?
October 19, 2018 6:39 pm
The BJP’s only chance for any upward mobility from its present stagnation in Kerala is by gaining the support of more Hindu votes and the Sabarimala agitation offers a tailor-made opportunity to whip up communal passion.
Plea against NGT order: Constitution bench to take call on religious events on govt land
July 07, 2018 7:29 am
The bench of Justices R F Nariman and Indu Malhotra, before which the petition came up, was of the view that “such religious activity” cannot be held in public places. “We think that what the NGT has done is right,” Justice Nariman told the petitioner’s counsel, Fuzail Ayyubi.
The idea of India
September 22, 2013 12:46 am
This idea of a secular,democratic,left-of-centre polity was very much the brainchild of Jawaharlal Nehru.
SECULAR VIDEOS
Why are secular leaders 'silent' on Malda Incident: BJP
January 11, 2016 8:16 am
New Delhi, Jan 11 (ANI): Describing the riot in Malda district as an act of communal violence, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday asked why secular leaders are silent on the incident. Naqvi further said the way communalisation is done under the protection of the West Bengal government is unfortunate and condemnable. He also alleged that the state government is playing vote bank politics on the incident.
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