Union Minister JP Nadda on Wednesday dismissed Congress Leader Mallikarjun Kharge's claims about the removal of the Preamble from NCERT textbooks and said that there is "no question" of altering the Preamble. Responding to Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge's claims, Nadda affirmed the Modi government's commitment to safeguarding the Constitution, despite not having personally reviewed the textbooks. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP government of removing the Preamble from NCERT textbooks.
"It has been reported that the Preamble of the Constitution was removed from the NCERT books. The preamble has been removed from NCERT textbooks, it was printed in the books earlier. The Preamble is the soul and spirit of the Constitution," Kharge said.
Referring to the November 25, 1949, Constituent Assembly speech in which it was said, "We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well. A political democracy can not last unless their lives are at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean, it means a way of life that recognises liberty, equality, and fraternity.
As the principles of life, these principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity are not to be treated as separate items in the Trinity. They form a union of trinity in the sense that, to avoid, and diverse from the other." He criticised the government for allegedly erasing statues of Dr BR Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi and tampering with the Constitution.
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