To,

1.   The Chief Secretary, Government of Telangana, Secretariat, Hyderabad, Telangana - 500063, Email- cs@telangana.gov.in, Twitter- @TelanganaCS 

2.   The Director and Inspector General of the Police,  opposite Ravindra Bharathi, Lakdikapul, Hyderabad, Telangana 500004, Email - dgp@tspolice.gov.in, Twitter - @TelanganaDGP 

3.   District collector, Hyderabad District, 5-8-505, Chirag Ali Lane, Abids, Hyderabad, Telangana 500001, Email – collector_hyd@telangana.gov.in, Twitter - @Collector_HYD

4.    The Commissioner of Police Hyderabad Hyderguda-Basheerbagh Rd, Hyderabad, Telangana 500029, Email - cp-hyderabad@tspolice.gov.in, Twitter - @CPHydCity 

Dear Sir,

Subject: Stop the inauguration of Manusmriti on 11/02/2023 at Telugu University in Hyderabad at 2 PM; instruct the organisers to Stop calling Manu smriti an ancient constitution of India which is anti-constitutional and reinforces every form of inequality. 

 

The Veda Dharma Prachara Trust translated and published Manusmriti from Hindi to Telugu. It will be inaugurated on 11/02/2023 at Telugu University in Hyderabad at 2 PM and calling Manu Smriti the ancient Constitution of India. 

The Manusmriti is an anti-constitutional and regressive text which reinforces every form of inequality – social, economic and gender. Therefore the Manusmriti goes precisely against the Constitution of India. 

 

It is pertinent to mention that the father of the Indian Constitution, Dr B R Ambedkar, burnt the Manusmriti on December 25, 1927, in the  Mahad satyagraha, which was organised for the right to dring water for the ex-untouchables (present Scheduled Castes) from the Mahad (Chavadar) water tank. 

Calling Manusmriti the ancient Constitution of India is baseless and laughable because 1) the Nationhood concept was relatively modern; therefore, there was no Nation, and none commissioned none to draft a constitution. 2) At best, it's a religious scripture whose foundation was laid on oppression and social regression. 3) It contradicts the spirit of the Constitution. 4) State university permitting such an event is Objectionable.

The Manusmriti stands for inequality, and the Constitution stands for equality. As everybody knows that this Country has only one Constitution, the Constitution of India has been in pursuance of the solemn resolution of the people of India to constitute India into a ‘Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic and to secure well-defined objects set forth in the preamble. Which reads below:

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity, and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assures the dignity of the individual and the unity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, this twenty-sixth day of November 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.[

 

It is illegal and a violation of the constitutional spirit to allow the propagation and call Manusmriti the ancient Constitution of India. Therefore it is a request to the authorities to stop the inauguration of Manu Smriti on 11/02/2023 at Telugu Univesity in Hyderabad at 2 PM. Further, instruct the organisers not to call the Manusmriti as ancient Constitution of India as India has only one Constitution, Which the people of India adopted. 

 

Sincerely,

Dr B Karthik Navayan, Advocate,

High Court for the State of Telangana