Students will have to read out the excerpts after morning prayers every day. | File image | Photo Credit: IANS

Key Highlights A government resolution about the move was issued when the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government was in power in February 2013 Several Congress leaders have time and again said that the CAA is “unconstitutional” and will not be implemented in Maharashtra

Mumbai: The mood following the central government’s rolling out of the Citizenship Amendment Act and the theories surrounding its clubbing with the National Register of Citizens as an act to flush out illegal immigrants outside the country has triggered massive protests across India.

People in huge numbers have taken to the streets of the country, holding posters and reading out the Constitution of India, with the narratives that the two laws are in violation of the constitutional rights of every citizen of India, irrespective of their religion and ethnicity.

In wake of these incidents, Maharashtra has ruled that starting this Republic Day (January 26), all schools in the state will have to read out the Preamble of the Constitution compulsorily during their morning assemblies.

While making the annoucement, the Minister Of Education Department of Maharashtra, Varsha Gaikwad, on Tuesday said that the move is part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government’s “sovereignty of constitution, welfare of all” campaign.

“Students will recite the Preamble to the Constitution so that they know its importance. It is an old government resolution (GR). But we will implement it from January 26,” Gaikwad, a Congress MLA, said, news agency PTI reported.

She added that students will have to read out the excerpts after morning prayers every day.

A GR about the move was issued when the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government was in power in February 2013.

However, as per a government circular as on 21 January 2020, the earlier GR was not under implementation.

Several Congress leaders have time and again said that the CAA is “unconstitutional” and will not be implemented in Maharashtra.