{"id":237904,"date":"2024-03-29T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=237904"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:04:10","slug":"secularism-embedded-in-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/secularism-embedded-in-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Secularism embedded in Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some people have been trying to banish the word &#8216;secular&#8217; from our Constitution by spreading half-truths. They argue that, since this word was not there in the original Constitution, it should not be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is true that this word was incorporated by the 42nd Amendment Act in 1976. But in no way can it be suggested that secularism was not a part of our original Constitution. This is a false propaganda based on half-truths. Article 25 to Article 30 bear testimony to the fact that secularism has been embedded in the original Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sujit De,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kolkata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor, Some people have been trying to banish the word &#8216;secular&#8217; from our Constitution by spreading half-truths. They argue that, since this word was not there in the original Constitution, it should not be a part of it. It is true that this word was incorporated by the 42nd Amendment Act in 1976. But in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}