As special session of the Parliament continues to function from the new building, a controversy has sparked an outrage on social media after Indian National Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged on Tuesday, 29 September, that the copy of the Constitution distributed to the Members of Parliaments did not have the words 'socialist' and 'secular' in its Preamble.
On being asked about the same, former Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi said, "In the preamble it (the words 'socialist secular') were not there," ANI reported.
“The new copies of the Constitution that were given to us today (19 September), the one we held in our hands and entered (the new Parliament building), its Preamble doesn't have the words 'socialist secular.' We know that the words were added after an amendment in 1976 but if someone gives us the Constitution today and it doesn't have those words, it is a matter of concern", Chowdhury told ANI.