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Indian court now
wants Geeta as national scripture
WSN Network
Allahabad: In a
nation which is largely ruun as a Hindu country with little regard
to the minorities and the deprived sections, off and on the chinks
in the intellectual armour deployed to keep this state of affairs
intact show up. Now, the Allahabad High Court has said 'Bhagwadgita'
is a national 'Dharma Shastra' of India and it was the duty of the
state to recognise the text as 'rashtriya dharma.’
It is the duty
of every Indian citizen under article 51-A of the constitution to
follow dharma propounded by ‘Bhagwadgita’, irrespective of caste,
creed or religion, the ruling said. The ruling came from a judge
just four days before he was to retire. Significantly, this same
judge Justice S.N Srivastava had a few months earlier ruled that the
Muslims in UP cannot be treated as a minority community. That ruling
was stayed by a Division Bench the very next day after an uproar in
the country but not a word was said to the judge.
This time,
giving the ruling on a writ petition of one S.R Mukherjee,
Srivastava said as India has recognised national flag, national
bird, national anthem and national flower, the holy text may also be
considered as national ‘dharma shastra’. The writ petition was by
Gopal Thakur Mandir of Varanasi.
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September, 2007
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