SC upholds inclusion of “socialist” & “secular” in Preamble, dismissing pleas challenging 1976 amendment made during Emergency, citing judicial reviews.
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Supreme Court reserves order on challenge to ‘socialist’ & ‘secular’ in Preamble; next hearing scheduled for 25 Nov 2024.
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Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay filed a PIL to remove the words 'Secular' and 'Socialism' from the Preamble of the Constitution and demanded to restore the original Preamble.
SC debates amending Preamble to remove 'socialist' and 'secular,' added in 1976, citing the unchanged adoption date of 1949 in a plea by Swamy.
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Why there is a debate over the words Socialist and Secular, which were added in the Preamble of the Constitution of India during the Emergency period in India? Read this whole report to know why peopl...
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