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The Bombay High Court rejects the appeal from four law students who opposed the state government's decision to declare a holiday on January 22 for the Ram Temple consecration ceremony...
Four law students, Shivangi Agarwal, 20, Satyajit Salve, 21, Vedant Agrawal, 19, and Khushi Bangla, 21, had challenged the Maharashtra government's decision to declare a public holiday on January 22, 2024, for the Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya..
These students, from MNLU, Mumbai, GLC, and NIRMA law school, believe that the state's move goes against the secular principles of the Indian Constitution...
They argue that without laws empowering states to declare public holidays and clear secular guidelines, such declarations, especially for political reasons, could harm India's secular fabric...
The legal challenge to Maharashtra's public holiday for the Ram Temple consecration reflects a broader debate on the mix of religion and state, questioning the commitment to secularism laid out in the constitution..
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