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  Secular, socialist terms added during emergency, time to rethink: Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Video

  India | June 27, 2025 18:46 IST

  Agriculture Minister Shivraj Chouhan argued that secularism does not originate from India's cultural foundations but was instead incorporated into the Constitution during the Emergency period (1975–77).

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  Supreme Court rejects plea to remove 'Socialist' and 'Secularism' from Constitution's Preamble

  India | November 25, 2024 14:12 IST

  The petition challenged the legality of adding the words 'Socialist' and 'Secular' to the Preamble through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976, arguing that including these words exceeds the Parliament's power to amend the Constitution under Article 368.

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  CPI opposes dropping of 'secular' word from Preamble

  Politics | February 01, 2015 7:17 IST

  Hyderabad: Noting that secularism reflected the “character” of India, Communist Party of India national general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy on Saturday decried the cropping of the word “secular” from the Preamble of Constitution and demanded