Venugopal: article 25(1) is the right of an individual and if one looks at the nature of the rights, they are in the nature of individual rights. that is to say, the individual rights is his freedom of individual conscience, his right to profeess, and practice. on the other hand, in contract, article 26 is the right of institutional autonomy of a religious denomination. and what are those rights to establish and maintain religious and charitable institutions? an individual may also have that right. that is, he may try to do it, and but he has to do it within organised framework of the denomination.