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Subject: Polity
Topic: Union and its Territory
Art. 1 says that India, that is Bharat, is a Union of States.
There is an opinion that the term’ Union of States’ implies that India is a unitary system of government and is federal only in a secondary sense. However, the following explanation dispels such an interpretation.
In the Constituent Assembly, the Drafting Committee decided in favour of describing India as a Union, although its Constitution is federal in structure.
Ans. Moving the Draft Constitution for the consideration of the Constituent Assembly in 1948, Dr. Ambedkar explained the significance of the use of the expression “Union” instead of the expression “Federation”. Two reasons are given