Uttar Pradesh chief minister yogi Adityanath has given a big statement on Constitution Day. He has said that the words socialist and secular were not in the original constitution of India. His statement during a program in the capital Lucknow on the occasion of Constitution Day has come at a time when the supreme court has rejected the petitions to remove these words from the constitution.
The cm said that the people who had worked to strangle the Constitution of india, the public has also not shied away from teaching them a lesson. The words secular and socialist were not in the original constitution of India. There were no "two words" in baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar's constitution. The words secular and socialist were not in the constitution. During the Emergency, congress has secretly added these words.
The Constitution gives the right of voting to every citizen - cm Yogi
Apart from this, the cm said that baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar laid the foundation of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat on this day. We would like that the debates that happened during the Constituent assembly should happen in institutions. The Constitution of india gives us rights, gives every citizen the right to vote.
On the occasion of Constitution Day, chief minister yogi Adityanath read out the Preamble of the Constitution in a ceremony organized at Lok Bhavan and paid tribute to the Constitution makers. Along with Yogi, both Deputy Chief Ministers of UP, Keshav prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak read out the Preamble. Maurya and Pathak also addressed the gathering. Describing the Constitution of india as the most comprehensive and powerful Constitution in the world, the chief minister said that baba Saheb first laid the foundation of "Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat" in the form of the Constitution. According to an official statement, yogi launched a scathing attack on the congress and said that by tampering with the Preamble of the Constitution, the congress has strangled the Constitution of India.
Let us tell you that in a decision on Monday, the supreme court dismissed the petitions challenging the 1976 amendment that added words like 'socialist', 'secular' and 'integrity' in the Preamble of the Constitution. The words 'socialist', 'secular' and 'integrity' were included in the Preamble of the Constitution under the 42nd Constitutional Amendment introduced by the Indira Gandhi-led government in 1976.
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