Former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Nariman on Wednesday said that when Shanti Bhushan was Law Minister after the Emergency, he chose not to remove the words “secular” and “socialist” that had been added to the Preamble by the 42nd Amendment.

Justice Nariman delivered the Shanti Bhushan Centenary Memorial Lecture, recounting the legal and political career of senior advocate and politician Shanti Bhushan, who served as India's Law Minister in the Janata Party government.

The words “secular” and “socialist” were added in 1976 by the Indira Gandhi Government through the 42 nd Amendment.

Justice Nariman explained that while Shanti Bhushan, as Law Minister in the Janata Party government, undid many changes to the Constitution, he chose not to remove these two words when he piloted the 43rd

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