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The lecture examines the erosion of constitutional morality, the weakening of parliamentary democracy and the growing centralisation of power in India’s political system.
‘Dr. Ambedkar and the Fraternity Clause in the Preamble’: The ‘fraternity’ clause in the Preamble introduced by Dr. Ambedkar elicited universal and effusive praise from the Constituent Assembly. Also: ‘We, the People: Why Fraternity is the Soul of the Indian Constitution’.
The Modi government’s move aims to transform our religiously diverse, plural and strictly secular armed forces into a weapon of Hindutva.
This fact is also a convincing repudiation of those who claim that international human rights instruments are ‘Western’.
The Indian Constitution is not a fan-fiction of foreign Constitutions. It has its own indigenous roots and flavours.
‘Eddelu Karnataka Launches “Constitution Protection Force”, Vows to Protect Democracy’: A massive crowd gathered in Davangere on April 26, under the auspices of Eddelu Karnataka (Wake Up Karnataka) and launched a campaign to protect the Constitution. Also: ‘Maharashtra: Sindhudurg to Mumbai, Protests Erupt Against “Repressive” Public Safety Bill’.
Let us hope and trust that the future has stored a better India, with a strong democracy and complete and truthful enforcement of fundamental and constitutional rights, says the senior advocate.
Long before the BJP came into existence, nearly four decades ago, the Sangh Parivar has many times betrayed its uneasiness with the Constitution. In fact, many of the sarsangchalaks of the RSS took a public stand for scrapping the Constitution.
The Song of India is its Constitution. Its melody is Democracy. The lyrics of the song are about Justice, Liberty, and Equality for all its diverse people. Fraternity among all the people of this proud nation provides the harmony.
The observation of the Supreme Court that ‘socialism’ in the context of the Indian Constitution is nothing more than the “State’s commitment to be a welfare state” is entirely untenable. The concept has rich contents to be derived from operative provisions in Parts III and IV of the Constitution.
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