India is land of equal opportunities, be proud of your religion: CJI JS Khehar

Indians cutting across faith and ethnicity should feel proud of who they are, this is what the Constitution is all about, Chief Justice of India Justice J S Khehar said today.

“Whether it is Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Muslims or Jains, everybody should be proud of his own religion to be an Indian. Everybody should be proud of his own ethnicity. Proud of being an Indian and that is what the Constitution is all about,” he said. Addressing the Independence Day celebrations organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association here, the CJI said even though he was not born as a citizen of India, he got equal status and opportunity like anyone else.

“After being a citizen, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. You are no less or more than anyone else,” he said. Justice Khehar said the country has a president, who is a Dalit and spent his childhood in a mud hut.

“We have an agriculturalist as our vice president who started his political career by pasting party posters. We have a prime minister who used to be a tea vendor at one point. “The chief justice of India was not a citizen of this country to start with, …read more