a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
c) Indira Gandhi
d) Morarji Desai
Solution:
- First Constitutional (Amendment) Act of 1951, introduced the Ninth Schedule in the Constitution of India during the prime-ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru.
- This amendment made laws placed in Ninth Schedule immune to judicial review, even if they violate any Fundamental Rights.
- The Ninth Schedule was brought in the Indian Constitution on 18 June 1951 to abolish Zamindari system. The Ninth Schedule contains a list of laws that cannot be challenged in courts.
- Out of 284 such laws which are shielded from judicial review, 90 per cent of laws are about agriculture and landholding.
Ans: (a)