Fraternity must be India’s foremost goal, says former Supreme Court judge

Fraternity must be India’s foremost goal as equality and liberty, the core founding principles of the Constitution, cannot survive without it, former Supreme Court judge Lavu Nageswara Rao has said.

“We boast of being one of the largest democracies in the world, our fundamental rights and the dignity of human life, but we are suffering even after eight decades of Independence because of the debilitating effects of religion, caste and various divisive forces,” he said.

Participating as the chief guest at the Alumni Meet of the Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU) School of Law on Saturday, Justice Nageswara Rao said caste continued to divide society and that he had not seen any improvement in this regard since Independence. What people got in 1947 was only “political independence” and not “social independence”, he said.