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 creator of our Constitution Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Mahaparinirvan day of. 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 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 did they get connected later?

Remembering Baba Saheb today, let us know in simple language what his real thinking was on these words.

Why did Baba Saheb have problem with the word ‘socialist’?

Often people think that maybe Ambedkar was a supporter of capitalism, hence he might 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, Professor K.T. Shah proposed to add the words ‘secular, federal, and socialist’ to the Preamble, then Ambedkar rejected it outright.

His argument was very compelling:
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 dictate what ‘kind’ of government should be (capitalist or socialist).

He had said, “We should not tie the hands of future generations by deciding this today. It is possible that in the future people will find a better system than socialism. In a democracy, people should have the freedom to decide how they want to maintain their economy.” That is, he kept democracy above all, 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 within the Constitution, Fundamental Rights Given provisions, such as Article 25 (freedom of religion), they already make India a secular country. He felt that sticking a separate ‘secular’ label could be just a pretense, when the soul is already secular.

Then when did these words come into existence?

If Baba Saheb had refused, then where did these words come from in our books today?
These words were not used in 1950, but in 1976 Were added. At that time there was emergency in the country and Indira Gandhi There was a government of. 42nd constitutional amendment Through this, in the Preamble, instead of ‘Sovereign Sovereign Democratic Republic’, ‘Sovereign Sovereign socialist secular ‘Democratic Republic’.