On the primary day of the dialogue on the Structure in Lok Sabha Friday, Opposition MPs attacked the BJP, alleging that the ruling occasion had disrupted the nation’s communal concord and, thus, tinkered with the Structure’s secular values.
DMK’s T R Balu additionally expressed disappointment with the President’s tackle, saying it didn’t make any point out of socialism and secularism. “I felt that the guts and soul of the Structure was not there. Within the Preamble, socialism and secularism are a very powerful elements… Authorities is allergic to each… They aren’t simply phrases, they embody India’s democratic, inclusive and egalitarian imaginative and prescient,” he mentioned.
Whereas citing incidents reminiscent of Graham Stein’s killing in Odisha in 1999 and the 2002 Gujarat riots, Balu mentioned the “scenario at present” was “grimmer, as a result of marginalised lessons and minorities have a robust feeling that they’ve been not noted and their livelihood is beneath critical risk.”
“That’s the reason we really feel President (Droupadi Murmu) ought to have talked about in her tackle that authorities is dedicated to socialist and secular values of Structure. It might have reassured the 142 crore folks of the nation,” he mentioned.
CPM’s R Sachithanantham mentioned the Structure was dealing with its “greatest risk in historical past”. “India turned a secular nation due to the Structure. The risk to the Structure emanates from the very people who find themselves now entrusted with upholding the Structure. The ruling BJP-RSS mix adheres to the Hindutva ideology which is inimical to the essential values of the Structure. The RSS and its ideologues have by no means hidden their contempt for the Structure. Ever since Modi got here to energy, his ministers are speaking about altering the Structure,” he mentioned.
TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee mentioned that within the final 10 years “secularism has been at stake”. “We will see discrimination on the premise of faith on the behest of the ruling occasion. Makes an attempt have been made by the ruling occasion to curtail Constitutional rights,” he mentioned, including elementary rights of individuals have been being abrogated.
“Rights of the folks of Manipur have been violated again and again. We now have seen rapes, murders. Have the Constitutional rights of individuals of Manipur been protected?… PM went to West Bengal and mentioned Sandeshkhali was a part of India. Is Manipur not a part of the nation?” he mentioned.
Elevating the Babri difficulty, E T Mohammed Basheer of the IUML referred to as the mosque’s demolition on December 6, 1992 “the saddest day so far as secular India is anxious”. On that day, he added, those that demolished Babri masjid shouted “yeh to keval jhanki hai, Kashi, Mathura baaki hai. (That is only a preview, Kashi and Mathura are subsequent in line).”
Basheer additionally referred to the latest Sambhal incident and mentioned that when survey officers went to the Sambhal mosque, Jai Shree Ram slogan have been shouted.
Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Arvind Sawant mentioned the present authorities was “enjoying with the Structure”. “There isn’t a have to impose an emergency, an undeclared emergency is efficient,” he mentioned.
Raj Kumar Roat of Bharat Advasi Celebration (BAP) mentioned there was a requirement for caste census for a very long time however the train was not being carried out, “which can be an assault on the Structure”.
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