'Secular' and 'socialist' will remain in Preamble: Government

The Union government has no plans or intention to remove the words “secular” and “socialist” from the Preamble to the Constitution, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told Parliament on Thursday.

Meghwal acknowledged that “certain groups” were seeking the removal of the two words from the Preamble.

“Any discussions regarding amendments to the Preamble would require thorough deliberation and broad consensus, but as of now, the government has not initiated any formal process to change these provisions,” Meghwal told Rajya Sabha.