This article explains the meaning and implications of “fundamental rights”—a basic and crucial concept which all of us need to understand correctly. They are more basic than any man-made laws and restrictions.
The cover-story of this issue is “Minority Rights” – one of the fundamental rights enshrined in articles 29 and 30 of Constitution of India (CoI). This column will provide you a general understanding of fundamental rights.
As I narrated in earlier issues, the constitutional values mentioned in the Preamble flow further in every Article of the CoI. Part I – articles 1 to 5 – enumerates the name and the territory of the Union; describes the formation of new states; alteration of areas, boundaries or names of the existing states. Part II – articles 6 to 11 – recognizes the citizenship, not only at the time of the commencement of the Constitution, but also citizenship issues in the years to come. This month, we focus our attention on another important segment of the CoI, namely, the fundamental rights enshrined in the Part III, in articles 12 to 35. These fundamental rights are human rights.
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Fr Ravi Sagar SJ
