It said the demand exposed the RSS’s long-standing aim to subvert the Constitution and its intent to transform India into a Hindu Rashtra in pursuit of its Hindutva project.CPI general secretary D Raja said RSS wanted India to be declared a theocratic nation, which is why it reiterates the need to redefine the Indian nation and rewrite history.CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said RSS’s attempt stems from the Sangh-BJP design to strip the Constitution’s democratic content. “The words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ may have been explicitly added through the 42nd Amendment, but the various articles supporting India’s secular framework and socialist orientation have all along been part of the basic structure of the Constitution,” he said.RJD president Lalu Prasad called the RSS a “casteist” outfit. “They do not have the guts to cast an evil eye on the Constitution and reservations provided therein. Why are people with an unjust character so full of hatred for democracy and Ambedkar’s Constitution?”Ambedkar never used ‘secular’, ‘socialist’: RSS leaderHosabale, addressing an event on the Emergency, said the Preamble of the Constitution formulated by Ambedkar never had the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’. “During the Emergency, when fundamental rights were suspended, Parliament did not work, and judiciary became lame, then these words were added,” the RSS leader said.
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