KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 25 (MExN): The Nagaland Congress Pradesh Committee (NPPC) has claimed that the words ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ were missing from the Preamble written in a circular which was issued by the NDPP-BJP government directing all the departments in the state to celebrate Constitution Day on November 24 by reciting the Preamble of the Constitution of India.
“A laudable initiative on the face of it, a closer inspection however, reveals the absence of the words ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ from the Preamble written on the circular, unmasking the proverbial devil in the details,” a press statement issued by the NPCC communications department said on Friday.
Alleging that this is “expectedly in line with the Modi government's unconstitutionally undertaken backdoor removal of the same words from the Preamble in September this year,” the NPCC said for a state like Nagaland, which is home to one of the most marginalized religious communities in the country, the removal of these words is particularly significant which the Chief Minister has failed to voiced out against.
Despite the constraints of coalition politics, the NPCC termed it sad to note that the “Chief Minister has once again timidly capitulated to the majoritarian agendas of his divisive political partner by going with the Modi government's unconstitutional version of the Constitution.”
While condemning the excesses of the BJP, both in the state and the centre, the NPCC have urged the Nagaland CM to “grow a spine and stand tall for his people, for a change.”
