While framing the Constitution of India, 29 members of the Constituent Assembly participated in the debate over two days to articulate the provisions relating to the rights of religious and linguistic minorities, a part of the Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of India. Under Article 29, the rights are available to “conserve” distinct language, script, or culture.
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Indian secularism has been loftily conceived as sarva dharma samabhava (or equal respect for all religions), which places it somewhat at variance with its Western counterpart. Its key principle has been adumbrated by Dr.
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“Deendayal Upadhyaya has become the political brand equity for the Bharatiya Janata Party that Gandhi was for the Congress Party,” a prominent BJP member asserted in 2017. And indeed, at the close of yearlong celebrations of the birth centenary of Upadhyaya (1916-68), the erstwhile General Secretary (1952-68) of the BJP’s forerunner Bharatiya Jana Sangh, there was reason to believe this was the case. Since its return to power with a majority in India’s Lok Sabha in 2014, the BJP made concerted efforts to elevate Upadhyaya to the status of national icon.
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