UPSC CDS GS Polity Questions Part 1

In Golaknath case, the Supreme Court ruled that ConstitutionalAmendments were also laws under Article 13 of the Constitution of India, which could be declared void for being inconsistent with the Fundamental Rights. The Supreme Court in Sankari Prasad and Sajjan Singh case had upheld the power of the State to amend the Constitution, including the provisions relating to the Fundamental Rights, thus conferring wide powers on theParliament. In the subsequent case of Golaknath, the Supreme Court took a different stand and upheld the sanctity of the Fundamental Rights above the power of the State to amend the same.