Debating the Preamble - The Hindu
Debating the Preamble - The Hindu
MyVIEW:
MyVIEW:
The Preamble ends with the sentence, “In our constituent assembly this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do hereby adopt, enact and give to ourselves this Constitution”. Viewed in this context (the position being as of November 26, 1949), there is a case to revisit Section 2 of the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976 which substituted “Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic” for “Sovereign Democratic Republic”. Perhaps, in Article 368, the words “any provision” did not cover the Preamble, and the authors of the Constitution might have envisaged a change in the Preamble when another Constituent Assembly revised the Constitution. Legalities apart, one wonders what change in policies has emerged post the inclusion of the words “socialist and secular”.
M.G. Warrier,
Thiruvananthapuram
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