Addressing the gathering at an event on the lectures of Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya, he said the original Constitution had images of Lord Ram, Krishna, Nataraja, spiritual guru Vivekananda, Sikh Guru Gobind Singh and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
Prasad lauded the country's founding fathers for "injecting soul" into the Constitution by incorporating the images in it, but wondered whether the country had drifted away from its "original thinking" in the last 60-odd years.
"If the Constitution was to be written today and the Constituent Assembly decided to have these portraits in the Constitution, will it be allowed? It is a question to be asked," said Prasad.
"The first question (raised by the opposition) will be, are we becoming communal? Is India becoming a Hindu state?" he said.
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The event was also attended by Union ministers Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Arjun Ram Meghwal.
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