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Chasing ghosts of Emergency
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|June 30, 2025
The noise about secularism and socialism misses the larger damage that the 42nd Amendment did to the Constitution
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debate is brewing over the insertion of two terms — secular and socialist — into the Preamble of the Constitution during the Emergency. First, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath called it "a brutal assault on the soul of India". A day later, RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said these terms were inserted when "the country had no functioning Parliament, no rights, no judiciary" and asked for a review. Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and several BJP leaders have joined the debate — some have described secularism as anti-Sanatana Dharma and a Western concept. The Opposition has criticised these remarks as evidence of the present regime's intent to subvert the Constitution.
This story is from the June 30, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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