Katju credits India's progress to its secular system

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 05, 2012, 00:28

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Mangalore: Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju on Tuesday credited the country's progress to its secular and diversified system which unified people of different religions, languages and cultures.

Katju said this while delivering the sixth silver jubilee endowment lecture on "Constitutional jurisprudence" at Shri Dharmastala Manjunatheswara Law College and Centre for Post Graduate Studies and Research in Law here.

At the time of partition, there was a great pressure on our political leadership to declare India as a Hindu state, but our leadership resisted it and the country remained as a secular state, he said.

"It is because of our secular constitution, our society made progress.

India is a centre of immigrants. People migrate to more comfortable areas from less comfortable areas and Indian constitution has given the right to its citizens to live anywhere in the country. The theory of Bhoomi Putra is unconstitutional," he said.

Speaking on the subject of the lecture, Katju said 'Jurisprudence' was a study of law in general and it came into existence when private property came into existence.

"At present jurisprudence was facing great crisis all over the world. Constitutional jurisprudence places constitution at the top of the hierarchy. Indian constitution is based on western models and this has provided great help to backward communities to move forward," he said.

PTI

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First Published: Wednesday, December 05, 2012, 00:28

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Petrus - Mumbai
If Katju cannot see that the country is not a secular state, but a pseudio secular state, where the rights of the minorities prevail above the rights of the majority, then all of his speech and lecture becomes worthless. And personally I am of the believe that should India have been declared a Hindu state, all minorities would have hab better living and there would have been more progress, since some minority communities still hope and work for it to grab power in the country and are massively supported by their foreign co-believers. Katju should also explain how secular is it when in a Hindu-Muslim danga, all Hindus can be prosecuted by a special commission, but no Muslims can be arrested!, even if the Muslim group would have started the trouble. That`s not the secularism we want!!