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A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court that sought the deletion and re-motion of two terms namely 'Secular' and 'Socialist' from the Preamble of our Indian Constitution. This plea has been filed by two Advocates namely Balram Singh and Karunesh Kumar Shukla and one social worker Pravesh Kumar. Before discussing the various aspects of the petition and analyzing the same, several questions have been aroused that needs attention. Whether socialist and secular are just political thoughts? Whether being secular is in contradiction with the republican nature of the Indian Constitution? Whether secular is a mark of modernity? Whether being secular refused the recognition of religious sentiments of people? Whether the socialistic and democratic state of India is antithetical to Republic Bharat? Recently, the petition filed in Supreme Court challenged the inclusion of two terms in the Indian Constitution which were inserted by way of 42nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976 ...

WHAT IS BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE? Although the doctrine of ‘Basic Structure’ is nowhere defined but is the foundation that lays down the basic features of our Indian Constitution such as its supremacy, sovereignty, republic nature of our country India and its polity, Rule of Law, Separation of Powers, liberty, judicial review, secularism and much more. It should be noted that our Indian Constitution empowers Parliament and State Legislatures to enact law for their respective jurisdictions but the power to amend any legislation so enacted vests only with the Parliament. However, this power of Parliament to amend the law is not absolute as judiciary on other hand has power to declare any such law void or unconstitutional that is vague or contrary to welfare of public or is inconsistent with the Indian Constitution. The doctrine was brought into the system for the following reasons- ·        To preserve and protect the spirit of Indian Constitution ·  ...

RELIGION VERSUS FAITH INDIAN SECULARISM: A COMPENDIUM OUTLOOK ON RELIGION & FAITH INTRODUCTION TO INDIA’S SECULAR APPROACH- We are well versed with the very fact that our India is well known for its richness in cultural, religious and linguistic spectrum. However, by way of 42 nd Amendment in 1950, India was declared as the secular state [herein referred to as ‘India’] that signifies the freedom guaranteed to Indian citizens to practice any religion. But on the other hand, this freedom is subject to public morality, social reform and health as well. For instance, the practice of ‘Sati’ cannot be followed in name of freedom of religion. Despite of clear inclusion of ‘secularism’ into the Indian Constitution, there is no wall of separation between religion and state. The only rationale behind incorporation of ‘secularism’ was to treat all the religious persuasion equally. India’s concept of secularism has been interpreted and established by various judicial pronouncements....