“It hasn’t got any definite meaning,” CJI K G Balakrishnan said today in response to a PIL that wanted ‘socialist’ deleted from the Constitution’s Preamble.
In a world where “comrades” want to embrace capitalism, does meaning have meaning?
“It hasn’t got any definite meaning,” CJI K G Balakrishnan said today in response to a PIL that wanted ‘socialist’ deleted from the Constitution’s Preamble.
In a world where “comrades” want to embrace capitalism, does meaning have meaning?
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This sounds like one of those frivolous PILs that usually get thrown out at admission stage, what is interesting is that they engaged F.Nariman!
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I actually heard the petitioner at a conference earlier this week, he called the Representation of People Act fascist as it required people to swear an oath to uphold socialism. Apparently the organization in question is very well funded.
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This is not a frivolous petition. This is the progeny of Ardeshir Darbarshaw Shroff who was a member of the famous “Bombay Plan” of 1938 under Nehru’s stewardship. By 1955, AD Shroff who was clued into big time finance capital flows, was a guest at the Brettonwoods conference, and had many friends among Frederick Hayek’s supporter’s (the anti Keynes camp based in the London School of Economics) – was instrumental in launching the Forum for Free Enterprise in Bombay. He was highly critical of the way the Indian planning system was going. Incidentally he was also a founder of ICICI. Transnational networks of neoliberalism which have been dormant for five decades began reorganizing and finding institutional expression since 1995 in all the major cities in India. It is not at all surprising that Nariman should be the advocate. Here is the website of the fairly well concealed network of Good Governance India Foundation. You will find the who is who of finance capital and neoliberalism — which incidentally in India goes under the name of liberalism– the donor organizations, and corporate identities all on that website.
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sorry, here is the link to the site: http://www.fairfest.com/municipalica_contact.html
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