Amended Provisions of the Constitution

11. Deleted the right to property from the list of Fundamental Rights and made it only a legal right.

12. Provided that the fundamental rights guaranteed by Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended during a national emergency.

13. Omitted the provisions which took away the power of the court to decide the election disputes of the president, the vice-president, the prime minister and the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Extended the reservation of seats for the SCs and STs and special representation for the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies for a further period of ten years (i.e., up to 1990).

1. Enabled the states to plug loopholes in the laws and realise sales tax dues.

2. Brought about some uniformity in tax rates on certain items.

Included 14 land reforms Acts of various states in the Ninth Schedule.

Facilitated the extension of President’s rule in Punjab beyond one year without meeting the two special conditions for such extension.