Why did Baba Saheb have objection to the word socialist? On Constitution Day, know the truth which very few people know.

News India Live, Digital Desk: Today is 6th December, i.e. the death anniversary of the creator of our Constitution, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar. Today the whole country is paying homage to him. But, for some time now a debate has been very hot in the country. That debate is about the two words written in the ‘Preamble’ of the Constitution, ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’. Many times people raise questions whether these words were in our Constitution from the beginning? If not, then why did Baba Saheb not insert them at that time? And how were these connected later? Remembering Baba Saheb today, let us know in simple language what was his real thinking on these words. Why did Baba Saheb have problem with the word ‘socialist’? Often people think that perhaps Ambedkar was a supporter of capitalism, hence he must have opposed ‘socialism’. But the truth is completely opposite. Baba Saheb was a socialist at heart and wanted equality for the poor. Nevertheless, during the Constituent Assembly debate on 15 November 1948, when Professor K.T. When Shah proposed adding the words ‘secular, federal, and socialist’ to the Preamble, Ambedkar rejected it outright. His argument was very strong: Baba Saheb believed that the function of the Constitution was to decide ‘how’ the government would be formed (through democracy). But the Constitution should not decide what kind of government should be (capitalist or socialist). He had said, “We should not tie the hands of future generations by deciding today. It is possible that in the future people will find a system even better than socialism. In a democracy, people should have the freedom to decide how they want to have their economy.” That is, he kept democracy above all else and not any ‘ism’. What did he think about ‘secular’? The interesting thing is that Baba Saheb did not oppose the word ‘secular’ as strongly as ‘socialism’, but he was also not very keen to write this word in the preamble. Why? Because he believed that the fundamental rights given in the Constitution, like Article 25 (freedom of religion), already make India a secular country. They felt that sticking a separate ‘secular’ label could be just a show, when the soul is already secular. Then when were these words added? If Baba Saheb had refused, then where did these words come from in our books today? These words were not added in 1950, but in 1976. At that time there was emergency in the country and Indira Gandhi was in power. Through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment, the words ‘Sovereign Sovereign Democratic Republic’ in the Preamble were replaced by ‘Sovereign Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic’.