The word ‘secularism’ was added during the Emergency & there should be deliberation on removing it, he says. A day before, Dattatreya Hosabale of RSS had made similar remark.

The debate to remove the words secular and socialist from the Indian Constitution has reared its head again with the RSS’s latest proposal ...

The preamble of India's Constitution defines it as a socialist and secular republic, but the RSS — a nationalist group close ...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Chouhan argued that secularism does not originate from India's cultural foundations but was ...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has strongly criticized the RSS for questioning the inclusion of "socialist" and "secularism" in ...

Certain utterances in the recent past have been strange as well as disconcerting and do not augur well for our polity. The ...

The controversy stems from Hosabale's assertion that the terms 'Socialist' and 'Secular' were not part of the original Preamble drafted by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. He argued that these terms were added ...

As the 50th anniversary of the Emergency rekindles debate over secularism, it is worth recalling that the framers of the ...

For defenders of the Republic, this is the time to draw a Lakshmana Rekha. We must say clearly: this Constitution is ours — ...

Rahul Gandhi accused the RSS and BJP of undermining the Indian Constitution's values of equality and secularism, favoring the ...