Opposing Swamy’s plea, Member of Rajya Sabha and the Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Binoy Viswam in his impleadment application has told the top court that both 'secularism and socialism' are inherent to the basic features of the Constitution.
Swamiji had, however, little faith in politics since it often reduced men to brutes who ‘in the name of politics rob others and fatten themselves by sucking the very life blood of the masses‘. None could deny this, looking at what is presently happening at various levels. Indeed, it is imaginable what therefore would have been his reaction had he seen politics suffused with lies and lust for power as it is today in this country.
Addition of the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ in the Preamble added nothing of substance to the Constitution, argue G.L. VERMA
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