Consider the following statements: 1. The

Solution

• Statement 1 is correct: The Preamble of the Constitution is based on the Objective Resolution drafted and moved by Pandit Nehru in the Constituent Assembly. • Statement 2 is incorrect: The Objective Resolution mentioned greater rights to citizens than those mentioned in Preamble. These were “justice, social, economic and political; equality of status of opportunity, and before the law; freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation, association and action, subject to law and public morality; and adequate safeguards for minorities, backward and tribal areas, and depressed and other backward classes.” • Statement 3 is incorrect: Objective Resolution did not mention the date of commencement of the Constitution.