Important Points To Know about PREAMBLE

• The preamble to the Constitution of India is a brief introductory statement that sets out the guiding purpose and principles of the document.
• The “Objective Resolution”, proposed by Pandit Nehru and passed by constituent assembly, ultimately became the Preamble to the Constitution of India.
• The preamble is not an integral part of the Indian constitution to be enforceable in a court of law.
• However, Supreme Court of India has, in Kesavananda  Bharti case, recognised that the preamble may be used to interpret ambiguous areas of the constitution where differing interpretations present themselves.
• As originally enacted the preamble described the state as a ""sovereign democratic republic".
• In 1976 the Forty-second Amendment changed this to read "sovereign socialist secular democratic republic".
• Memorise These 5 words in Sequence ( SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRTIC REPUBLIC ) ............very important .
• 42nd amendment  :-  On 18 December 1976, during the Emergency in India, the Indira Gandhi government pushed through several changes in the Forty-second Amendment of the constitution. Through this amendment the words "socialist" and "secular" were added between the words "sovereign" and "democratic" and the words "unity of the Nation" were changed to "unity and integrity of the Nation".
• The wording of Preamble is close to the preamble to the Constitution of Ireland, which had been adopted in 1937; it reads "We, the people of Éire [Ireland] ...Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution".
• The Supreme Court in S.R Bommai v. Union of India case  held that secularism was an integral part of the basic structure of the constitution.
• The idea for the addition of 'socialist' was prompted by Indira Gandhi, because of  India's growing relationship with the erstwhile USSR.