1. No Legal Force

The Directives have been criticised mainly because of their non- justiciable character. While K.T. Shah dubbed them as 'pious superfluities’ and compared them with 'a cheque on a bank, payable only when the resources of the bank permit’13 , Nasiruddin contended that these principles are 'no better than the new year’s resolutions, which are broken on the second of January’. Even as T.T. Krishnamachari described the Directives as 'a veritable dustbin of sentiments’, K C Wheare called them as a 'manifesto of aims and aspirations’ and opined that they serve as mere 'moral homily’, and Sir Ivor Jennings thought they are only as 'pious aspirations’.