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On counter to the Congress on the ad of Republic Day, a senior Union minister today said leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and B R Ambedkar were “more intelligent” than the present day Congress leaders and did not include ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ words in the original preamble of the Constitution.

While talking to the reporters after the Cabinet press briefing Telecom Minister Ravishankar Prasad said, he found nothing wrong in Siva Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s saying on removing of these two words can be removed permanently from the Preamble.

Congress leader and former Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari has said the deletion of the two words, which was only to substitute the two words with  “communal” and “corporate”.

The advertisement had carried a picture of the Preamble to the Constitution as it appeared before the 42nd Amendment, without the words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’.

Minister of State for I&B Rajyavardhan Rathore said some people are trying rake up the controversy were the Ministry is has used  the picture of the Preamble when the Constitution was first adopted.

AW: Arun Kumar