A senior professor in Gujarat calls for a ban on all religious rituals on university campuses. The professor argues that state-funded higher education institutions should remain non-religious and comply with constitutional requirements around secularism.
In explaining the position, the professor cites the Supreme Court’s 1973 Kesavananda Bharati judgment, which holds that secularism forms part of the Constitution’s “basic structure.” The argument is presented as a way to ensure neutrality in public institutions and avoid religious activity on campus.
The coverage emphasizes the professor’s constitutional reasoning. It does not uniformly describe whether university authorities have acted on the demand or how the proposal would be implemented. Overall, outlets frame the issue as a debate over the role of religion in public educational spaces, grounded in the interpretation of secularism under Indian constitutional law.
