THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Every citizen is committed to preserve secularism and protect federal values, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He clarified this in a Facebook post wishing all on Independence Day. The architects of our republic envisioned the dawn of tolerance and co-existence in independent India. However, this is the stage when caste and ethnic divisions cast a dark shadow over the republic in such a way as to injure secularism. The chief minister said that federal principles are also being subverted to a large extent.