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 THE CONSTITUTION (FORTY-SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 1976

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FORTY-SECOND AMENDMENT

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Constitution(Forty-fourth Amendment) Bill, 1976 (Bill No. 91 of 1976) which was enacted as THE CONSTITUTION (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASON

A Constitution to be living must be growing. If the impediments tothe growth of the Constitution are not removed, the Constitution willsuffer a virtual atrophy. The question of amending the Constitutionfor removing the difficulties which have arisen in achieving theobjective of socio-economic revolution, which would end poverty andignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity, has been engagingthe active attention of Government and the public for some years now.

2. The democratic institutions provided in the Constitution arebasically sound and the path for progress does not lie in denigratingany of these institutions. However, there could be no denial thatthese institutions have been subjected to considerable stresses andstrains and that vested interests have been trying to promote theirselfish ends to the great detriment of public good.

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 THE CONSTITUTION (THIRTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1974

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THIRTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT

Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Constitution (Thirty-sixth Amendment) Bill, 1974 which was enacted as the Constitution (Thirty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1974

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

In pursuance of the historic agreement of the 8th May 1973, between the Chogyal, the leaders of the political parties representing the people of Sikkim and the Government of India and of the unanimous desire of the members of the Sikkim Assembly expressed in the meetings of the Assembly held on the 11th May 1974, for the progressive realisation of a fully responsible Government in Sikkim and for furthering its close relationship with India, the Sikkim Assembly considered and passed the Government of Sikkim Bill, 1974 unanimously. The Chogyal promulgated this Bill on the 4th July, 1974 as the Government of Sikkim Act, 1974. For the speedy development of Sikkim in the social, economic and political fields, section 30 of the Government of Sikkim Act, 1974 empowers the Government of Sikkim, inter alia, to seek participation and representation for the people of Sikkim in the political institutions of India. On the 28th June, 1974, after passing the Government of Sikkim Bill, the Sikkim Assembly resolved unanimously that measures should be taken, amongst other things, for seeking representation for the people of Sikkim in India's parliamentary system.