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FREEDOM MOVEMENT

PREAMBLE

GENERAL ELECTIONS

CHRONOLOGY

1952

First

Election

1946 - Dec 9 Constituent

1957 Second Election

Assembly

first

meeting.

1962

Third Election

1967 Fourth Election

1949-

Nov 26 Complete framed constitution.

1971

Fifth Election

1950-

Jan 26 Constitution enforced.

1977

Sixth Election

1980 Seventh Election

1952

1984 Eighth Election

First general elections 173 million on electoral rolls, 105 million exercised thei franchise.

1989

Ninth Election

1991

Tenth Election

1996 Eleventh Election

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

(d) that there is equal pay for equal work for both men and women (e) that the health and the strength of workers men and women, and the tender age of children are not abused and that citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their age or strength (f) that the children are given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of free- dom and dignity and that childhood and youth are protected against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment.” "The State shall within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement and in other cases of undeserved want". “The state shall make provision for securing just and hu- mane conditions of work and for maternity relief.” “Living wage, etc, for workers.... work, a living wage, con- ditions of work ensuring a decent standard of life and full enjoyment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities.”

Article 14 :

Equality before the law and equal protection of the laws within the territory of India Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth

Article 15 :

Article 16 :

Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment

Article 19 :

"All citizens shall have the right- (a)

to freedom of speech and expressions; to assemble peacefully and without arms;

(b)

(c)

to form association or unions; ................

(d) to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business...

Article 41 :

Directive Principles of State Policy

Article 38 :

" State to secure a social order for the promotion of welfare of the people" "The State shall in particular; direct its policy towards securing - (a) that the citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood; (b) That the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good (c) that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of pro- duction to the common detriment;

Article 39 :

Article 42 :

Article 43:

Article 43 A: “Participation of workers in management of industries.”

Article 47:

“Duty of the State to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living and to improve public health.”

" Credit goes to the people of this great and ancient landfor having demonstrated, so convincingly, their love for freedom and democracy, their ability to run the sophisticated institutions devised by the Constitution and, above all, their sense of dedication to the cause of the country." H. R. Gokhale