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Law Reforms Commission submits final report

Kochi: V.R. Krishna Iyer, Chairman, Law Reforms Commission, Kerala, on Monday stressed the need for steering the way clear, away from feudal survivals and imperial pressures, and bringing into play authentic democratic and socialist structural basics as an honest response to the Constitutional preamble.

Presenting the final report of the commission to Law Minister M. Vijayakumar here, he said that the law reforms had “a heroic opportunity for innovative jurisprudential engineering, at once dramatic and revolutionary, in a functional anarchy.” He said that “indigenous feudal, industrial, proprietary and MNC investors from hegemonic countries buy our politicians, making our economic independence and swadeshi-based swaraj a stultifying simulacrum.”

“We have to fight these emasculating forces, even though they had the ability to condition the culture and capture the conscience of our politicians and public personalities, undermining the authenticity and legitimacy of our ruling classes and party professionals.”

He said that theology, in its many hues, had become “divisive social technology and communalist political strategy.” He said: “Religion is popular opium and God a lucrative commodity in the hands of pseudo-spiritual leaders who are dealers in ecclesiastic business with large dividends.”

The former Supreme Court judge said that if a massive campaign of secular liberation through the law was not launched, “our unity, fraternity and material advance would be in peril.”

He said the commission’s paramount strategy was to discover and operate a “pharmacopoeia” of socialist secular democratic jurisprudence which might be described symbolically as “Maveli jurisprudence.”

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