Could Preamble have been amended without altering Constitution’s adoption date? | Latest News India
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine whether the words “socialist” and “secular” could have been inserted in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution in 1976 even though the date of the adoption of the Constitution remained unaltered — November 26, 1949. The top court was hearing a pair of petitions that have sought deletion of words “secular” and “socialist” from the Preamble (ANI) Hearing a pair of petitions that have sought deletion of words “secular” and “socialist” from the Preamble, a bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta clarified that the court did not mean to say that Preamble cannot be amended at all, but the question arose if it could have been tweaked when the date of adoption of the Constitution was a part of the Preamble too. Experience Delhi’s rich history through a series of heritage walks with HT! Participate Now “Just consider this…Can the Preamble be changed while keeping the other date intact? This is perhaps the only Preamble we have seen that comes with a date. On so …