SECULARISM SUBSTANTIATION OF ARTICLE 25(2)(b) OF CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

Abstract

The sole pursuit of religious freedom or truth is the private belief of each individual and thus augmenting the importance of strength and conscience of the individual believer’s faith on above everything. A person’s deepest convictions and beliefs should be held candidly and clandestinely. The ‘Feel Free’ Doctrine of Locke can be equated to justify freedom of religion with minimal interference only on the basis of morality, public order and public health.iOn analysing different faces of Secularism landscape, so many diverse adaptations can be developed, freedom from the rules and teachings of the religious sect and another is the freedom from the trickery of religious beliefs upon people by the government. Another face depicts the neutrality panorama on matters of belief within a State and deters State privileges to religion. The next picture implies the political decisions must be pure from religious influences; it must be based on pragmatic realities. ‘Neutrality’ and ‘Separation’, these two words are the key points which differentiates Indian Secularism with that of the Western Secularism. But the common thread that connects these two versions of Secularism is that, it is a set of tell tales and traits whose aim is to ensure that the State is neither engaged in promoting specific religious beliefs and mindsets, nor uses its powers and office to tyrannize religion. The neutrality approach means paving way to consider every religion on equal parlance and it is not like taking one religion in a specific strata, may be in negative or positive way, the religious freedom embedded in Constitution of India from Article 25 to 28,ii not fully satisfies this ‘neutrality test’, the test result will show an error when it comes under Article 25(2) (b), which specifically stating the name of one particular religion in the name of social welfare.