EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article is a Question answered to: CAN WE REMOVE THE WORDS SECULAR AND SOCIALIST FROM THE PREAMBLE TO THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION?
The preamble that almost the entire population of India assume is the preamble to the constitution of India (COI) is in fact NOT the actual Preamble to the COI. Making you think that it is the Preamble is deception and one of the biggest acts of gross misuse of political power against the people of India since independence.
What needs to be done is to make the parliament and the general public aware that the ONLY real Preamble is, word for word, the original Preamble agreed upon by the constituent assembly, on behalf of ‘WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA’ on 26th November 1949 at the inception of a democratic sovereign state called “India that is Bharat”
WHY SO?
Let’s first start with what a preamble is. A simple search gives the following definitions:
A preamble is an introductory and expression ARY statement in a document that explains the document’s purpose, aim and underlying philosophy.
Here is the statement that explains the purpose, aim and underlying philosophy of the Indian constitution as agreed by the constituent assembly, DATED 26TH NOVEMBER 1949 at the formation of INDIA that is BHARAT
Since this is an agreement made at the creation of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of India and it’s constitution in 1949, IT CANNOT BE AMENDED (It’s an historic document and not part of the constitution) but can ONLY BE REPLACED at the inception of a NEW constitution..
NOT A SINGLE WORD CAN BE ADDED, REMOVED OR REPLACED from the original PREAMBLE TO THE CURRENT INDIAN CONSTITUTION and imply that these words were agreed to on 26th November 1949.
The above is the preamble “to” the constitution of India and NOT “a part of” the Constitution of India. It is a PEOPLES’ PACT. Only a NEW constitution (not an amended constitution) can have a NEW preamble, a new pact.
Any law or articles in the constitution can be amended in a constitutional manner but the Preamble was not meant to be any article of COI or any section of any new law. It is an agreement for the lifetime of the Constitution of India and so cannot be amended. You can’t go back to 1949. In order to say that it is constitutionally amended, you would first have to declare that it is part of the constitution. This in fact is not true. The Preamble was never intended to be part of the constitution. That’s exactly what Indira’s Congress did. Made it part of COI. Then amending was easy.
THE FOLLOWING IS AN ASSUMED PREAMBLE BECAUSE IT TOO IS DATED 26TH NOVEMBER 1949 (see last line in green). The words ‘‘Socialist Secular’ have been added in the first sentence. These words were NOT agreed by the constituent assembly in 1949.
INDIAN CITIZENS and (rest of the world) HAVE BEEN DECEIVED.
So, CAN WE REMOVE THE WORDS SECULAR AND SOCIALIST FROM THE PREAMBLE TO THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION?
ANSWER: These words aren’t there in the first place, to be removed.
THE KEY THING TO REMEMBER IS THE DATE. THE ASSUMED PREAMBLE IS ONE DATED 26 NOVEMBER 1949 WITH WORDS ADDED, REMOVED OR REPLACED; NOT MATCHING THE FIRST IMAGE.
If you wrongly assume the words in the second image (with ‘Socialist Secular’ added in 1976) constitutes the Preamble to the Indian constitution; then it MUST NOT STATE “IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY THIS TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1949.”
The Preamble in the second image must
Either
A) state the correct date, in which case it’s a new Preamble to a “new” constitution (This, hardly anyone will dare do)
OR
B) it simply isn’t the Preamble, with words added still dated 26th November 1949
TAKE YOUR PICK.. A or B ?
The “new” preamble, with the words “Socialist Secular”, cannot be the preamble because it suggests that these are words were accepted in 1949 and adopted in 1950. THEY WERE NOT.
In conclusion (advice to the protectors of the Indian constitution):
In your fight to save the constitution, you’ve forgotten to save the Preamble which lays out the aim, purpose and underlying philosophy of the Indian constitution that you are trying to protect.
The Constitution of India (coi) is based on the Preamble and not the other way round. The COI mustn’t contradict it. The most significant words ever uttered in “independent” India are THE WORDS OF THE PREAMBLE. This was and still is the AIM of “We the people of India”. The COI is an agreed: plan of action” to be walked upon to reach the meticulously set goal. Situations will arise making it necessary for the plan (coi) to be fine-tuned or amended.
SAVE YOUR PREAMBLE FIRST. OTHERWISE IT’S A NEW CONSTITUTION (and you haven’t been told).It happened in Indira raj. The congress set the precedent and the BJP/RSS is sure to continue with the tradition.
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AUTHOR: Ānanda Bashu
