Fifty years ago | Expanded Preamble

New Delhi, November 11: The Law Minister, Mr. H. R. Gokhale, to-day read out the expanded Preamble of the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha to-day and called upon the members to go to the people and explain the spirit in which the Preamble had been inscribed in the Constitution by its founding fathers. Replying to the third reading of the Constitution (42nd Amendment) Bill, Mr.

Gokhale referred to Mr. Prakash Vir Shastri’s demand to replace the word “secular” with “Asampradayik” or non-communal. Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

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