'Socialist' and 'secular': What do these words mean in the Constitution, and how did they come to be part of the Preamble? | Explained News
The original framers of the Constitution did not feel the need to explicitly mention either word when the overall philosophy of the founding document and its Articles themselves made clear the high ideals that the Indian state had committed itself to. It was Indira Gandhi’s Emergency government that amended the Constitution and inserted the two words in the Preamble in 1976.