Question

What is a Preamble? State any two points of its significance.

Answer 1

Hint: It represents people's expectations and dreams. It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and entered into force on 26 January 1950, the day observed in India as Republic Day. The preamble was made in 1947, but in 1949 it was accepted.

Complete answer:
The Preamble to India's Constitution is a short introductory declaration setting out guidelines for directing the people of the nation and presenting the Constitution's principles and for guiding them and to show the source and purpose of the document's authority.
The preamble refers to the constitution's introduction or preface. The Constitution's preamble is based on the "Resolution on Objectives" drawn up and adopted by Pandit Nehru and adopted by the constituent assembly on 26 November 1949.

Significance :
The preamble embodies the basic principle and fundamental principles on which the constitution is based: democratic, moral and religious. It contains the grand and noble vision of the constituent assembly, and expresses the constitution's founding fathers' hopes and ambitions.

Note: So far, the preamble has only been revised once. The government of Indira Gandhi forced through several amendments to the Forty-Second Amendment of the Constitution on 18 December 1976, during the Emergency in India. A committee chaired by Sardar Swaran Singh recommended that this amendment be adopted after consultation to research the issue of constitutional amendment in the light of past experience. "By this amendment, between the words "Sovereign" and "democratic" the words "socialist" and "secular" were added and the words "unity of the Country" were changed to "unity and dignity of the Nation