NEW DELHI, August 7, 2024 (TBINN)
Opposition Congress party today raised in Rajya Sabha the issue of dropping off Preamble to the Constitution from certain N.C.E.R.T. textbooks saying this was an attempt to impose communal ideology on the country – a claim which Union Minister J.P. Nadda countered saying the government was committed to protecting the Constitution.
Raising the issue, Leader of Opposition and Congress’ president Mallikarjun Kharge said Preamble, which is the soul and foundation of Indian Constitution, used to be published in N.C.E.R.T. textbooks.
The objectives stated by the Preamble are to secure justice, liberty, equality to all citizens and promote fraternity to maintain unity and integrity of the nation, he said and went on to read the debate in Constituent Assembly in November 1948, where it was argued that political democracy in the country should also be made a social democracy.
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