Monday, February 16, 2015

Addition of 'Socialist & Secular' to Preamble

why the words socialist and secular were introduced in constitution in 1973?..there was not much communalism at that juncture and the words were already mentioned in the constitution, so what might be the reasons for this introduction?

the 42nd amendment had a flurry of changes in it. one among them was the introduction of these words in the preamble. the amendment states that it wants to make these things explicit.

That was a political decision of Indira Gandhi. She was taking many socialistic initiatives like nationalization of banks etc. You have to understand in that context.

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