Complaint filed against RSS gen secy Hosabale for Preamble remarks
Bengaluru, June 30 -- A police complaint has been filed against Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, accusing him of making "unconstitutional, inflammatory and divisive" comments and seeking legal action against him.
The complaint, filed by members of the Karnataka legal cell of the Indian Youth Congress, said that Hosabale's recent comments seeking to remove the terms "socialist" and "secular" from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution were an "attack on the constitutional ethos" and an "incitement against the nation's founding values".
The complaint was filed at the Seshadripuram Police Station in Bengaluru on Sunday. While the police acknowledged the receipt of the complaint, no FIR was filed till the time of going to print.
"These remarks are not just ideational commentary. They are deliberate, provocative, and dangerous" the complainant, Shreedhar MM, a representative of the Youth Congress, said.
The complaint said that Hosabale's speech violated several provisions of the BNS and amounted to "an attempt to marginalise religious communities and promote disharmony".
"These are not protected political speech," the complainant wrote. "They are an incitement to constitutional subversion and fall within the purview of cognizable criminal offenses."
He stoked a political controversy last week, when, speaking at an event in Delhi on Thursday, he said, "During the Emergency, two words, secular and socialist, were added to the Constitution, which were not part of the original Preamble. Later, these words were not removed. Should they remain or not. a debate must happen on this...."...
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