A day after Rajnath Singh said that the word 'secular' is misused in India, the Shiv Sena has backed the Home Minister. Sena said that the word secular was added to the Constitution for narrow political gains.
Rajnath Singh had sparked a row when he said that secularism is the most misused word in Indian politics.
Earlier in January 2015, the Shiv Sena had demanded "permanent deletion" of the words 'secular' and 'socialist' from the Constitution.
"From the time they (the words) were included in the Constitution, it is being said that this country can never be secular. Balasaheb Thackeray and before him Veer Savarkar had been saying that India was divided on the lines of religion. Pakistan was created for Muslims, thus, what remains is a Hindu Rashtra," Sanjay Raut had then said.
The winter session of Lok Sabha on Thursday began with an animated debate on the Constitution during which the government said the word 'secularism' mentioned in it had been "misused" while the opposition, led by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, raked up the issue of 'intolerance'.
Initiating discussion on 'Commitment to India's Constitution' as part of 125th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, Rajnath Singh said the architect of the Constitution had never thought of putting the term 'secularism' in the Preamble but it was incorporated through an amendment in 1976.
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