Syllabus: GS-II
Subject: Polity
Topic: Preamble
Issue: Amendment of Preamble.
Context: A bench of Justices asked a former Rajya Sabha MP who has sought the deletion of the words “Socialist” and “Secular” from the preamble of the Constitution.
- The Preamble was amended once in December 1976 to introduce the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’.
- The amendment was made through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment during the Emergency, replacing the phrase “unity of the nation” with “unity and integrity of the nation.”
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