CPI(M) General Secretary MA Baby on Saturday has strongly criticised recent remarks by RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, who called for the removal of the words "secularism" and "socialism" from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.
The RSS will complete 100 years of its establishment on Vijayadashami this year. To mark this milestone, celebrations will begin on August 26 with a lecture series by RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat, which will take place in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale's comments pitching to remove the words "secular and socialist" from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution has sparked massive outrage in the political circle with the opposition leaders and parties labelling it as an
"RSS-BJP doesn't want the constitution. They want Manusmriti. They aim to strip the marginalised and the poor of their rights and enslave them again. Snatching a powerful weapon like the constitution from them is their real agenda," the Congress leader posed on X.
Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi state president Saurabh Bharadwaj on Friday accused the BJP and RSS of attempting to erode core constitutional values like socialism and secularism for the benefit of capitalist interests.
Shiv Sena leader Shaina NC on Friday said she "supports" the remarks of RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on the Constitution and said that the leader's demand to re-examine the original draft prepared by Dr BR Ambedkar stems from the view that in a republic like India, invoking term
"Any right-thinking citizen will endorse it because everyone knows they are not part of the original constitution, which Dr Ambedkar and the rest of the committee wrote. This is not the question of BJP vs non-BJP...It is a matter of preserving democratic and constitutional values, and those
Senior Congress leader and MP KC Venugopal lashed out at the RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale's statement and claimed that the leader's remarks were an insult to the Constitution, a rejection of its values, and a direct attack on the Supreme Court.
"Just as we fought the emergency, today the new forms of dictatorship and neo-fascism, which are so clearly visible under the BJP-RSS rule, must be fought," Karat told ANI.
"The RSS has always opposed the core values of our constitution -- secularism and socialism. Now, their leaders are once again saying these words should be removed from the Preamble. This is not a casual remark -- it is part of a long-standing agenda to reshape India's democracy in their ide
Speaking to ANI, Mollah said, "They are daily attacking the Indian Constitution. They are destroying its basic structure. Its federal character is under attack. Public civil rights are also under threat."