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Supreme Court<\/strong>: In the writ petition where it was prayed a National Policy be framed to promote and propagate the National Anthem, National Song and National Flag in spirit of the Article 51-A to achieve the great golden goals, as set out in Preamble of the Constitution of India, the 3-Judge Bench of Dipak Misra, R.Banumathi and mohan M. Shantanagoudar, JJ said that Article 51-A of the Constitution of India does not refer to ‘National Song’ and only calls for respect towards the National Anthem and National Flag as a fundamental duty.<\/p>\n

However, the Court agreed to hear petition on other aspects, including the feasibility of singing \/playing the National Anthem and National Song in Schools on every working day and tagged it with Shyam Narayan Chouksey v. Union of India,\u00a0<\/em>2017 SCC OnLine SC 129<\/a>, which relates to the similar matter. [Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. Union of India, 2017 SCC OnLine SC 144<\/a>, order dated 17.02.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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