Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): Assertion (A) : India is a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. Reason (R) : It was substituted by (42nd Amendment) Act 1976 for Sovereign Democratic Republic. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below: Code :

Asked in CGPSC Prelims Exam 2019 · Topic: The Preamble (Understanding 'Socialist' (including 42nd Amendment))

1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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