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Government advt against ethos of Constitution: Congress
New Delhi, Jan 28
Slamming the government for
an advertisement that depicted an image of the preamble of the
Constitution without the words 'secular' and 'socialist', the Congress
Wednesday called it an insult of the ethos of the statute.
"The
advertisement issued by Narendra Modi led BJP government, from which the
two fundamental words of the preamble of the Constitution - secularism
and socialism - were deleted, reflects an affront to the Constitution
and sacrilegious insult to its ethos," Congress spokesperson Randeep
Surjewala said Wednesday.
"Congress, as also every citizen of the
country, which has faith in the principle ethos of our Constitution as a
governing framework for India of the past, present and future and on
behalf of every such citizen of India, we demand an immediate apology
from the government of India on the issue," the Congress spokesperson
said.
"We also call upon the prime minister to clarify his stand
on the his definition and understanding of the words secularism and
socialism as also the path that has government proposes to take on these
two important fundamentals ingrained in the letter and spirit of the
Constitution," he added.