Preamble is Constitution’s soul, should not be dropped from NCERT textbooks, says Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Wednesday that the Preamble is the “soul of the Constitution” and demanded that the National Council of Educational Research and Training revoke its decision to drop it from several school textbooks.

Kharge, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, alleged in the House that the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were tampering with the school curriculum to impose their “communal ideology” on the people.

“The Preamble to the Constitution has been dropped from NCERT textbooks,” Kharge said. “It used to be printed in the textbooks earlier. The Preamble is the soul of the Constitution. It embodies the Constitution’s fundamental principles of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.”

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, however, refuted Kharge's allegation. “The Preamble is there in the new textbooks of Class VI,” he said, according to The Telegraph. “Along with the Preamble, there are fundamental rights, fundamental duties and the national anthem, too. These also represent the core values of the Constitution. Whatever he read was factually not correct.”

आज हमने NCERT की कुछ पाठ्यपुस्तकों से संविधान की प्रस्तावना (Preamble) को हटाने का बेहद अहम मामला उठाते हुए सरकार से स्पष्टीकरण मांगा।

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