School students across Maharashtra will have to compulsorily read out the Preamble to the Constitution during their morning assemblies from January 26, minister Varsha Gaikwad said on Tuesday.
The reading of the Preamble is part of the “sovereignty of Constitution, welfare of all” campaign, a state government circular said.
“Students will recite the Preamble to the Constitution so that they know its importance. It is an old GR (government resolution). But we will implement it from January 26,” the school education minister, who is from the Congress, told reporters here.
The Congress is one of the constituents in the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government along with the NCP.
A government resolution about reading the Preamble during school assemblies had been issued in February 2013 when the Congress-NCP government was in power. Tuesday’s circular said the old GR was not being implemented.
The move to make students read out the Preamble comes at a time protests have broken out across the country against the citizenship law and the proposed NRC. Many Congress leaders have said the “unconstitutional” act will not be allowed in Maharashtra.
