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Singhvi: on essential practice- there is a larger degree of animity that essentiality is an unsustainable test. article 25 expressly subject to these heads and essentially impermissible adds to the list.

mylords are confined to a factul ascertained question whether a belief is genuinely held.

on social reform and throwing open- these two limbs can't be conflated. the constitution doesn't permit every exercise of social reform power althought it contains the general throwing open power. bear reading of b reflects a conscious choice consider the caste based discrimination.