Delhi Government extended an official welcome to the Shankaracharya. In his speech the Shankaracharya  said that the word secular. should be expunged from the Constitution. He need not have laboured the point: for all practical purposes barring the Communists, most of our political leaders have deleted secularism from the lexicons. The Lakshman Rekha between politics and religion no longer exists. Religion has invaded the domain of politics and completely swamped it. Thus was have driven the last nail in the coffin of secularism, as envisaged by Pandit Nehru.

The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism. people in politics or holding elected public offices must not publicly engage themselves in religious rituals. nehru never did so and even reprimanded. President Rajendra Prasad, for inaugurating the renovated temple of Somnath. He did not encourage godmen and tantrics to intrude into affairs of the State. The slide began with his daughter Indira Gandhi. With her people like Dhirendra Brahmachari became a formidable figure. Astrologers and tantrics got into decision-making circles. We had the likes of Buta Singh, Jakhar and Rajiv Gandhi paying homage to Deoraha Baba. We had the likes of Chandraswamy and Satellite Baba performing Yagnas in homes of Ministers and Chief Ministers. And we have the Delhi Government inviting Shankaracharya to be a state guest.