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Friday, August 31, 2007

Let Thy Will Be Done

When our founding fathers gave us our Constitution, we made a commitment to ourselves that we would uphold the Preamble, protect Fundamental Rights and gradually bring into reality the people’s aspirations contained in the Directive Principles.

In all our legislations before the nineties, there is invariably some reference to the Preamble, Constitutional goals and the Directive Principles.

After the Uruguay Round, India (through its executive) accepted the obligations in GATT/TRIPS, which is institutionalised in the form of WTO, by signing the treaty in 1994. It did so without taking into account that it was making a commitment without the peoples’ will.

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