Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Constitution: Why And How?

Question:

Who said, “We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy."

Options:

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Sardar Patel

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

Correct Answer:

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 1 -  Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar said, “We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy."


We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life, which recognises liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life. These principles of liberty, equality and fraternity are not to be treated as separate items in a trinity. They form a union of trinity in the sense that to divorce one from the other is to defeat the very purpose of democracy. Liberty cannot be divorced from equality, equality cannot be divorced from liberty. Nor can liberty and equality be divorced from fraternity. Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative. Without fraternity, liberty and equality could not become a natural course of things…”

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, CAD, Vol. XI, p.979, 25 November 1949.