Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : 1 and 2 only
The correct answer is 1 and 2 only. - The Preamble of the Indian Constitution is based on the objective resolution drafted and moved by Jawaharlal Nehru and adopted by the constituent assembly.
- The Preamble reveals 4 ingredients of the components
- Source of the authority of the Constitution: The Preamble states that the Constitution derives its authority from the people of India.
- Nature of Indian State: It declares India to be of a sovereign, socialist, secular democratic, and republican polity.
- Objectives of the Constitution: It specifies justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity as the objectives.
- Date of adoption of the Constitution: It stipulates November 26, 1949, as the date.
- The word socialism is added by the 42nd amendment in 1976 in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution. Hence, Statement 2 is correct.
- The constitution has socialist nature in the form of the directive principle of State Policy (DPSP).
- The Congress party adopted a resolution to establish a socialist pattern of society in its Avadi session in 1955. Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
- However, the Indian brand of socialism is democratic socialism and not communist socialism.
- Democratic socialism holds faith in a mixed economy where both the public and private sectors coexist side by side.
- Democratic socialism aims to end poverty, ignorance, disease, and inequality of opportunity.
- Indian socialism is a blend of Marxism and Gandhism leaning heavily towards Gandhian socialism.
- The new economic policy of liberalization, privatization, and globalization in 1991 however diluted the socialist credentials of the Indian state to an extent.
- The Supreme Court ruled that Preamble is not a part of the Constitution in the Berubari Union case (1960).
- In the Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala (1973), the Supreme Court overruled the ruling in Berubari Union Case (1960) and held that Preamble is a part of the Constitution.
- The Preamble is neither a source of power to the legislature nor a prohibition upon the powers of legislation.
- It is non-justiciable which means provisions are not enforceable in a court of law. Hence, Statement 3 is incorrect.
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