Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde: I appear on behalf of the rationalists for the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti. It is my respectful submission I stand in the pround tradition as somebody from Udupi where both shirur mutt and devaru came.

Hegde: speaking from a rationalist perspective, we are not atheist. we are people who say that look, everything including religious as to go through the filter of reason.

Hegde: it is also relevant with the actual constitutional history and history of these two provisions. one should not take these two provisions alone, please bear in mind the historical moment in which this court was forged. we are a deeply religious ritualistic country, we suffered partition because we couldn't accommodate certain religious identities and our constitution was written in backdrop of imperialism and also social struggle within ourselves.