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I agree with Santosh Helekar when he says that the word secular was
introduced in the preamble of the constitution during the Emergency for
political reasons, and had nothing to do with the upholding the principles
of secularism. Such type of duplicity was quite common with Indira Gandhi.
I also agree with him that the consitution set out in 1950 intended India to
be secular. However, since the definition of secularism has been kept vague.
This has lead to many funny situations. For example, when members of Shiv
Sena leave the organisation to join the Congress party they always said that
they were doing so to uphold the principles of secularism! In fact, one such
member, upon joining the Congress party, asked what is wrong with being
secular. This clearly implied that he was not a secular person while in the
Shiv Sena. An even funnier part is that the person was a member of
parliament and had taken an oath to uphold the principles of secularism.
Sachin Phadte
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