Short Speech On Secularism

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Secular is a word that analysis plural religious in a plane where each have equal property and virtue and these properties and virtues have no meaning in political and civil society. In civil society and in secular nation there is not a space for religion in any part of its development activities. Public welfare activities like education, health, public distribution, and other should be separated. Politic and political activities, lows and rules, representative and represented person, all these should have to separate from religious. In recent discussions of Indian political life, it seems a major source of problems that the practices associated with secularism lies in the heavy burden. Secularism as an orientation and a set of practices …show more content…

It refers to the transfer of church properties to the exclusive control of the princes. After French Revolution, when Napoleon re-establishment of the Catholic Church as the state religion was ended there had been introducing new changed policy. This including a brief separation of church and state. On second November 1789, a valuable statement was announced by Talleyrand to the French National Assembly that all ecclesiastical goods were at the disposal of the nation, as indeed they should have been.
T N Madan in his speech in Secularism presents Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi’s view on it. Nehru was a rationalist knowing well that human values …show more content…

In Indian constitution, there are articles like 14, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27 and 28 that reinforces the idea of secularism in Indian politics. Citizens pay taxes for nation by maintaining their religious. But still there some examples that show the crisis of secularism. Tribe in India may be one of the example. Sociologist argues that Sarana may be their religion. But Indian constitution have not description on it. Gandhi and Nehru also want to join them in Hinduism. Take the example of places of worship. Atal Behari Vajpayee 's adherence to Nehruvian ideology has been recognized by the Congress Party in its recent praise of his record as PM, encomiums that were somehow neglected to be paid during the six years that he was in that office. Perhaps because his ally, the TDP 's Chandrababu Naidu, was unwilling to surrender control of Tirupati and other devasthanams, Vajpayee refused to free Hindu temples from state control, so as to give them equality of status with churches, gurudwaras and masjids. However, such discrimination is in perfect accordance with Nehruvian secularism, which has made India the only democracy where the majority community is subject to restrictions and to edicts in the manner that the minority communities suffer from in some other nations, such as

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