On 27th December 1948, Shri M. Thirumala Rao [Madras General] at the Constituent Assembly spoke as follows;
I am free to confess that we are emphasizing the absence of God in this Constitution too much my opinion was that we should have his name in the Preamble but the general opinion was different that when its come to swearing, I see no reason why any person should fight shy of the name of God. I failed to understand, how this offence against the conception of a Secular State. A Secular State is used in contrast with Theocratic Government or a Religious State, it implies that Citizenship is irrespective of religious belief that every Citizen to whatever religion he may belong is equal before the law – equal civil rights and equal opportunity it derive benefit from the State and to live his own life and nothing more. A Secular State is not a Godless State – it is not a State, which is pledged eradicate or ignored religion, it is not a State which refuses to take notice of religious beliefs in this Country as a matter of fact every State recognizes this. We have done it in passing the fundamental rights with regard to religion. Religion is the richest possession of man and even under this Secular State, a person having a religious beliefs will be fully entitled to it in the way that he like. Any State that seek to outlaw God, it very soon come to an end.
Comment: We see now in the Preamble, the word Secular, but it was absent in 1950 and this word Secular along the Socialist able to existent in the Preamble in 1976, almost 26 years after Republic, but anyway thanks to the great speaker from Madras for his foresight.