The Preamble of the Indian Constitution promises fraternity among all the Indian citizens to ensure:
1. Progress of the Nation
2. Unity of the Nation.
3. Integrity of the Nation
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
1 and 2 only
Incorrect Answer2 and 3 only
Correct Answer1 and 3 only
Incorrect Answer1, 2 and 3
Incorrect AnswerExplanation:
Option b is correct: The ‘Progress of the nation’ is not mentioned in the preamble of the Indian constitution. According to Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India, Political Democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. Social Democracy means a way of life, which recognizes liberty, equality, and fraternity as the principles of life. These principles 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. The Preamble in its present form reads: 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
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