Will ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ be removed from the Preamble of the Constitution? Supreme Court will give its verdict on November 25

New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Friday that a lot of judicial review has been done regarding the 42nd amendment of the Constitution, which was done in 1976. We cannot say that whatever work the Parliament did during the Emergency is invalid. Making this comment, the court refused to hand over the petition demanding removal of words like ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ from the Preamble of the Constitution to a larger bench. he/she said that the verdict in the matter would be pronounced on Monday. The bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar has reserved the decision after hearing. Chief Justice Khanna said that in the Indian context, socialist means welfare state. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has filed an application requesting to delete the words secular and socialism which were added through constitutional amendment in the Preamble. Advocate Vishnushankar Jain and others have also filed an application.

What is the question in the petition

The Supreme Court has challenged the late insertion of the words secular and socialist in the Preamble of the Constitution. Petitioner Subrahmanyam Swamy has filed an application requesting to delete the words secular and socialism which were added through constitutional amendment in the Preamble. Apart from this, Advocate Vishnushankar Jain and others have also filed an application. Petitioner lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay has argued that he/she is not against the words socialist, secular and integrity. We are not against keeping it in the Constitution but are against including it in the Preamble in 1976. It was introduced in 1976 during the tenure of Indira Gandhi and was made effective from 26 November 1949.