‘Secular and Socialist’: Remove the stains of onslaught on Constitution

As India marks 50 years since the darkest chapter in its democratic history, the Emergency, it is also time to confront a deeper betrayal: the silent mutilation of our Constitution. At a time when citizens were gagged and democracy was throttled, the alien terms ‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’ were forcibly inserted into the Preamble. It was done not by consensus, but by coercion. This act defied the vision of our Constitution's original architects, including Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who deliberately kept such terms ou