Overview

• RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale renewed demands to review the words “secular” and “socialist,” arguing they were illegitimately inserted during the 1976 Emergency.
• Senior BJP figures including Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Jitendra Singh publicly endorsed revisiting the Preamble’s two terms, reflecting growing intra-party momentum.
• The Supreme Court’s 2024 rulings under the basic structure doctrine safeguard the additions as core constitutional values of liberty, equality and justice.
• With 240 of 543 Lok Sabha seats and the need for ratification by half of India’s 28 states, the BJP falls short of the two-thirds majority required to amend the Preamble.
• Opposition parties led by Congress have mobilized to defend the current Preamble text as essential to India’s commitment to religious neutrality and social welfare.