42nd Amendment of the Constitution

• Enacted during the Emergency in 1976
• It attempted to remove the Judicial Review of Laws and gave sweeping powers to the Office of the Prime Minister

• “sovereign democratic republic” to “sovereign socialist democratic republic ” in the Preamble of the Constitution of India

Aftermath¶

The emergency and the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution were unpopular, and therefore, the Janata Dal (Morarji Desai) won the next elections.

• A lot of the policies were reversed by the 43rd Amendment of the Constitution and 44th Amendment of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court of India also declared some of the provisions unconstitutional via the Minerva Mills vs the Union of India judgement.