Mainstream WeeklyThe RSS General Secretary, Dattatray Hosabale, second in the RSS leadership hierarchy, on the eve of imposition of Emergency in 1975; stated that it was during the emergency that words Secularism and socialism were inserted in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And that these words were not there in the original preamble of the Constitution drafted by Dr. Ambedkar; so they should be removed.
This is not the first time that such a demand was raised from Hindutva quarters. When the BJP government came to power in 2014, in the following Republic day, January 2015, the Government issued an advertisement with the picture of preamble, in which these words were missing, on the same pretext that these were not in the one released in November 1949. A lot of debate took place and a case was filed in the Courts demanding deletion of these words from the present Constitution.
Multiple petitions were filed on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the constitution on November 25, 2024. The Supreme Court rejected these and dismissed all the petitions which challenged the inclusion of the words