No ifs and buts about Constitution's amended preamble
However, last November, the Supreme Court had thrown out petitions seeking the purge. A bench led by the then Chief Justice, Sanjiv Khanna, ruled that the concept of secularism represents one of the facets of the right to equality. Several landmark Supreme Court verdicts have also upheld secularism as part of the Preamble and the Constitution's basic structure. On socialism, the court said, 'The way we understand socialism in India is very different from other countries. In our context, socialism primarily means a welfare state. That is all.'
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