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Comment: The Directive Principles of State Policy are not mere pious declarations but clear directions for the guidance of state policy.

  • UPSC 2007, 2003
  • 20 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The phrase is B. R. Ambedkar's. Defending Part IV in the Constituent Assembly on 19 November 1948, he denied that the principles were meant as mere pious declarations: legislatures and executives were not to pay them lip service but to make them the basis of all executive and legislative action. The claim holds as constitutional…

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