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Be proud of who you are: CJI Khehar

The CJI added that the country has a Dalit leader who spent his childhood in a mud hut, a Vice-President who is an agriculturist and a Prime Minister who was once a tea vendor.

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CJI JS Khehar and Ravi Shankar Prasad
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Indians should be proud of their faith and ethnicity, Chief Justice of India (CJI) JS Khehar said speaking on the occasion of the country’s 70th Independence Day celebrations on the lawns of the Supreme Court.

“Whether it is Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Muslims or Jains, everybody should be proud of his own religion to be an Indian. Everybody should be proud of his own ethnicity. Proud of being an Indian and that is what the Constitution is all about,” he said.

“After being a citizen, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. You are no less or more than anyone else,” Khehar said after he revealed that he was born in Kenya.

“The Chief Justice of India was not a citizen of this country to start with, but when he became the citizen of this country, he was equal to everybody else and had equal opportunities. This is what citizenship or independence is. The freedom to all to achieve their hopes, ambitions, desires,” Khehar said.

The CJI added that the country has a Dalit leader who spent his childhood in a mud hut, a Vice-President who is an agriculturist and a Prime Minister who was once a tea vendor.

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who was also present at the event, suggested that the country’s greatest achievement was its secular fabric.

“I hold a very firm view that India is not secular because the Constitution says so. The word ‘secularism’ was added to the Preamble only during Emergency. India is secular because India’s heritage is secular. That flows from the great Rig Veda. Truth is one, wise men interpret it in different manners,” he said.

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