Short Paragraph on Secularism– Secularism, being a part of the basic structure, is an unalterable feature of Indian Constitution. In our Constitutional scheme secularism means that the State has no official religion of its own and supports all religions alike.
The Constitution grants freedom of religion to all citizens, and therefore citizens following different religions have equal right to profess and propagate their respective faiths. The state is duty bound to protect the religious rights of all the citizens alike. When the Constitution declares India to be a secular State, it does not mean that it rejects the reality of an unseen spirit or the relevance of religion to life, or that it teaches faithlessness.It also does not mean that secularism itself becomes a positive religion. It only means that no religion gets any preferential treatment of any kind at the hands of the State. The essence is that all religions, with respect to the State, stand on equal footing.
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