Exp) Option c is the correct answer. The Objectives Resolution was moved by Jawaharlal Nehru on December 13, 1946, and was adopted unanimously on January 22, 1947. The Muslim League had boycotted the Constituent Assembly by this time and was not a part of the deliberations regarding the Objectives Resolution.

Statement 1 is correct: The Objectives resolution served as the inspiration for the Preamble of the Constitution of independent India.

Statement 2 is correct: This resolution declared that when India becomes an independent sovereign country, it will derive all its authority and power from the people of the nation. This concept is known as Popular Sovereignty.

Statement 3 is correct: The Objectives Resolution proposed the government of independent India to be federal with a Centre and autonomous Provinces. In this scheme, the Residuary powers were envisaged to be vested in the provinces in order to provide them with the greatest degree of autonomy

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 Important provisions of Objectives Resolution

• It proclaimed India to be an independent Sovereign Republic.
• All powers and authority of sovereign and independent India and its constitution shall flow from the people.
• India to have a federal form of government with Division of Powers between the Centre and the States.
• All people of India shall be guaranteed and secured social, economic, and political justice; equality of status and opportunities and equality before the law; and fundamental freedoms – of speech, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation, association and action – subject to law and public morality.
• To provide adequate safeguards to the minorities, backward and tribal areas, depressed and other backward classes.