Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Test

Chapter

General Knowledge

Question:

Which amendment to the Constitution of India changed the description of India from a 'sovereign democratic republic' to a 'sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic' and also changed the words 'unity of the nation' to 'unity and integrity of the nation'?

Options:

44th

40th

42nd

47th

Correct Answer:

42nd

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - 42nd

The amendment that changed the description of India in the Constitution's Preamble  from "sovereign democratic republic" to "sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic" and "unity of the nation" to "unity and integrity of the nation" was the Forty-second Amendment Act of 1976.

The exact text of the Preamble - 

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.