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Constitution- a feminist document
December 12 , 2022
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- CJI D Y Chandrachud was delivering the 8th Dr L M Singhvi Memorial Lecture on the theme "Universal Adult Franchise: Translating India's Political Transformation into a Social Transformation".
- He mentioned that, the introduction of universal adult franchise was a revolutionary act at a time when such a right had only recently been extended to women, people of colour, and the working-class in supposedly "mature" western democracies.
- In this sense, our Constitution was a feminist document, as well as an egalitarian socially transformative document.
- It was a break from the colonial and pre-colonial legacy, the boldest move adopted by the Constitution that was truly a product of Indian imagination.
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