Impossible to have 'Hindu Rashtra' under Secular Constitution: Indira Jaising

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising on Friday said the constitution is under threat from that responsible for upholding it.

Delivering the 29th justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture At the India International Center, MS. Jaising said, “The Truth is, you can never have a 'Hindu rashtra' under a secular constitution.”

She Said, “What I am witnessing is something that I would call a kind of repudiation of the constitution of India by that responsible for uphlding it. This is done in many ways, formal and informal. The formal way to do it is to amend the citizenship act, which allows for fast-trach citizensh

MS. Jaising criticized the new criminal laws (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagaraik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyyam) and Said that they failed to “Decolonise” is like Marital Rape. The Senior Advocate also expressed Concerns Over Anti-Conversion Laws Implemented Across the Country That Particularly Target the Minority Communities.

MS. Jaising also pointed out recent controversies that had an erupted from Indian courts outing to a Lack of “Fairness and Impartianess”. This inclined the 'Hate speech' give by sitting judge of Allahabad High Court, Justice Shekhar Yadav. She also pointed out how a Gujarat High Court Judge Told A Minor Rape Victim, Who Had Sought for the Termination of Her Pregnancy, that She Must Go and Ask Her Grandmother How Women Used To Deleiver Babies AT Her Age.

“We see judges looking for divine guidance to make their decisions. This is very anti-constitutional. I want to end by saying that I stand here to affirm the constitution of India, “MS. Jaisingh added.

Terming the topic of the lecture, 'India's modern constitutionalism', as of 'great importance', delhi high court chief justice dk upadhyaya said that there is a need to defortiate Constitution and Practizing Constitutionalism. Emphaising on the important of rule of law, justice upadhyay added “What separates these two, in my understanding, is the rule of law. Even Aven Authoritarian Regimes may have a constitution, but sans constitutionalism. The best example is that of the risk of hit after the first world warmany, “Justice upadhyaya said.