The article cited above refers to the PIL filed by an organization called the 'Centre for Social Justice' objecting to a 'Hindu Brahmin' performing rituals during the foundation stone laying ceremony for a Court building in Gujarat.
In this context, I would like to highlight to the readers that senates of various states in the United States of America are commencing their sessions with Vedic Prayers. I am sure they must have permitted the prayers only after trying to understand the meaning and purpose of the prayers. One must always remember that the Vedas and Vedic thoughts are for the welfare of the entire mankind.
This being the case, it is really surprising to see the trend in India where anything anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin is viewed as good and anything Brahminical is wrong. Unfortunately, the true enemy of the Brahmin is sometimes the so-called intellectual and elitist Brahmins.
Let us resolve and strive to help each other.
Full text of the news item:
AHMEDABAD: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court against the religious rituals performed during a judiciary's function, particularly by the Gujarat High Court on its foundation day. The PIL has urged the SC to declare the foundation stone laying ceremony by performing religious rituals at the high court premises as unconstitutional.
A rights-based organisation, Council for Social Justice (CSJ) has filed the PIL challenging the ceremony of laying foundation stone of an auditorium in the high court premises as per the Hindu rituals. The apex court has kept hearing on this plea after the summer vacation.
On May 1, the high court's foundation day, governor Dr Kamla laid the foundation stone of the auditorium that is to be built in the extended campus at Sola. The ceremony was performed by a Hindu Brahmin and religious rituals were performed in presence of the judges of the high court, other members of Gujarat judiciary and three judges of the apex court.
Before the ceremony took place, CSJ made a representation before the chief justices of HC, as well as, SC urging them to prevent performance of religious rituals looking at the fact that India is a secular country and following rituals of a particular religion is against the spirit of the Constitution. But the high court went ahead with the programme.
CSJ later filed a PIL in the SC urging that the performance of religious rituals at the foundation stone laying ceremony by the high court should be declared as unconstitutional. The apex court has also been requested to direct the state judiciary not to arrange such ritualistic programmes in future, said CSJ secretary Valjibhai Patel.
A rights-based organisation, Council for Social Justice (CSJ) has filed the PIL challenging the ceremony of laying foundation stone of an auditorium in the high court premises as per the Hindu rituals. The apex court has kept hearing on this plea after the summer vacation.
On May 1, the high court's foundation day, governor Dr Kamla laid the foundation stone of the auditorium that is to be built in the extended campus at Sola. The ceremony was performed by a Hindu Brahmin and religious rituals were performed in presence of the judges of the high court, other members of Gujarat judiciary and three judges of the apex court.
Before the ceremony took place, CSJ made a representation before the chief justices of HC, as well as, SC urging them to prevent performance of religious rituals looking at the fact that India is a secular country and following rituals of a particular religion is against the spirit of the Constitution. But the high court went ahead with the programme.
CSJ later filed a PIL in the SC urging that the performance of religious rituals at the foundation stone laying ceremony by the high court should be declared as unconstitutional. The apex court has also been requested to direct the state judiciary not to arrange such ritualistic programmes in future, said CSJ secretary Valjibhai Patel.
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