Secularism in India
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India since its independence in 1947 has been a secular country. The secular values were enshrined in the constitution of India. India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru is credited with the formation of the secular republic in the modern history of the country. With the forty-second amendment of the constitution of India enacted in 1976, the preamble to the Constitution asserted that India is a secular nation. However, the Supreme Court of India in the 1994 case S. R. Bommai v. Union of India established the fact that India was secular since the formation of the republic.
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Quotes
[edit]- All religions should be treated equally.
- Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi (1930), as translated in Peter Losonczi; Walter Van Herck, Secularism, Religion, and Politics: India and Europe (Routledge, 2017), p. 33
- Secularism is the bedrock of our nationhood, secularism as defined not in the English dictionaries, where it is defined as 'non-religious' or 'anti-religious', but secularism the way Panditji defined it as Sarva Dharma Samabhava which allows every religion to flourish in our country.
- Rajiv Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi Selected Speeches and Writings (1986), Vol. 1, p. 55.
- There was such a tag which was in fashion wearing which all sins would get washed. That fake tag was called secularism. Slogans would be raised for the unity of secular people. But you would have witnessed that from 2014 - 2019 that whole bunch stopped speaking. In this election not even a single political party could dare to mislead the country by wearing the mask of secularism.
- Narendra Modi, as quoted in PM Modi delivers victory speech: Highlights (May 23, 2019), The Times of India
