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    The original text of the Indian Constitution's Preamble omitted the words "secular" and "socialist". Dr. B.R. Ambedkar reasoned during the Constituent Assembly debates that including "secular" was unnecessary as the entire Constitution ensured a secular state with equal rights. He also argued against including "socialist" as the people should decide what type of society to live in, not have it dictated in the Constitution. However, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi later added the two words through a 1976 amendment for political reasons to appeal to minorities and portray herself as standing for the poor. Constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap says the changes were merely playing politics.

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    The original text of the Indian Constitution's Preamble omitted the words "secular" and "socialist". Dr. B.R. Ambedkar reasoned during the Constituent Assembly debates that including "secular" was unnecessary as the entire Constitution ensured a secular state with equal rights. He also argued against including "socialist" as the people should decide what type of society to live in, not have it dictated in the Constitution. However, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi later added the two words through a 1976 amendment for political reasons to appeal to minorities and portray herself as standing for the poor. Constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap says the changes were merely playing politics.

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    The original text of the Indian Constitution's Preamble omitted the words "secular" and "socialist". Dr. B.R. Ambedkar reasoned during the Constituent Assembly debates that including "secular" was unnecessary as the entire Constitution ensured a secular state with equal rights. He also argued against including "socialist" as the people should decide what type of society to live in, not have it dictated in the Constitution. However, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi later added the two words through a 1976 amendment for political reasons to appeal to minorities and portray herself as standing for the poor. Constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap says the changes were merely playing politics.

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    GS Advanced Program 2023

    CGP#Pol A2
    2023

    The Hindu context of the birth control programmes of


    the emergency period. It was not as if the
    Debates show why Preamble’s original text
    Constitution was not secular or socialist
    left out the two words
    before the words were added. India has been
    Krishnadas Rajagopal, APRIL 02, 2016 secular before the 42nd Amendment and
    continues to be secular after it.” “It was
    Even as the omission of the words ‘secular’ merely playing politics,” Mr. Kashyap said.
    and ‘socialist’ from the Preamble text in a
    government advertisement has stoked a He said the present controversy over the
    controversy, the Constituent Assembly government advertisement was “innocuous.”
    debates clearly show why the words were “The advertisement only shows the Preamble
    omitted in the original text. The debates saw originally signed by the Constituent
    Dr. B.R. Ambedkar reason that there was no Assembly members with the calligraphy of
    need to include the term ‘secular’ as the the famous artist, Nandalal Bose.”
    entire Constitution embodied the concept of
    secular state, which meant non- It shows the Preamble as on January 26, 1950
    discrimination on grounds of religion and when the country became a republic, he said.
    equal rights and status to all citizens.

    On the inclusion of the term ‘socialist,’ he


    said it is against the very grain of democracy
    to decide in the Constitution what kind of
    society the people of India should live in.

    “It is perfectly possible today, for the majority


    people to hold that the socialist organisation
    of society is better than the capitalist
    organisation of society. But it would be
    perfectly possible for thinking people to
    devise some other form of social organisation
    which might be better than the socialist
    organisation of today or of tomorrow. I do
    not see therefore why the Constitution
    should tie down the people to live in a
    particular form and not leave it to the people
    themselves to decide it for themselves,” he
    had said. His words had influenced the final
    decision to omit the two words.

    However, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi re-


    introduced the two words for political
    reasons in the 42nd Constitution
    Amendment of 1976. Constitutional expert
    Subhash Kashyap said: “The word ‘socialist’
    was added to send a message politically that
    she stood for the poor. The word ‘secular’
    was obviously meant for the minorities in the

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