AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 31 October 2021

AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION

1. Constitution provides for its amendment in order to adjust itself to the changing conditions and needs.
2. Procidure laid down for its amendment is neither as easy as in Britain nor as difficult as in USA. In other words, the Indian constitution is neither flexible nor rigit but a synthesis of both.
3. Article 368 in Part XX of the constitution deals with the powers of Parliament to amend the Constitution and its procidure.
4. It states that the Parliament may, in exercise of its constituent power, amend by way of addition, variation or repeal any provision of the Constitution in accordance with the procedure laid down for the purpose.
5. However, the Parliament cannot those amend provisions which from the ‘basic structure’ Constitution. This was ruled by the Supreme Court in the Kesavananda Bharati Case (1973).