Now 'secular' and 'socialist' go missing from Rajya Sabha calendar

January 30, 2015 09:31

Mail Today reports: The government's Preamble play up has reached the portals of Parliament.

In what appears to be a trial balloon floated by the BJP led NDA to introduce the original Preamble in the political discourse to generate debate, the latest calendar published by Rajya Sabha also carries the picture of the Preamble without the key words "secular" and "socialist".

To that end the objective has been achieved as the Congress has taken strong objection to the government's Republic Day advertisement in which the two "S" words were missing leading to a raging controversy which was later aggravated by NDA partner Shiv Sena as it demanded permanent removal of the words "secular" and "socialist" from the Constitution.

The Rajya Sabha, meanwhile, has defended its calendar and clarified that it was not a mistake.

Gurdeep Sappal, OSD to Vice-President Hamid Ansari, who is also chairperson of the upper house, told Mail Today that the calendar is part of the history and heritage series which reproduces the original historical document hand calligraphed volume of the Constitution by Nandalal Bose.

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