Mr. Vice-President, Sir, I stand here to support this article. This article has to be read with article 13, article 13 has already assured freedom of speech and expression and the right to form association or unions. The above rights include the right of religious speech and expression and the right to form religious association or unions. Therefore, article 19 is really not so much an article on religious freedom. But an article on, what I may call religious toleration. It is not so much the words “All persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion” that are important. What are important are the governing words with which the article begins, viz., “Subject to public order, morality and health”.
