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Provisions of this Constitution, the expression 'provisions of this Constitution relating to' means 'provisions having a dominant and immediate connection with': it does not mean merely having a reference to, H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur of Gwalior v. Union of India, AIR 1971 SC 530: (1971) 1 SCC 85: (1971) 3 SCR 9.

The words 'provisions of this constitution' cannot be limited or confined to a particular chapter in the constitution or to a particular set of articles. While construing a constitutional provision, such a limitation ought not to be ordinarily inferred unless the context does clearly so require. The provisions of the constitution include the chapter relating to Fundamental Rights, the chapter relating to Directive Principles of State Policy as also the Preamble to the Constitution, S.R. Bonnai v. Union of India, (1994) 3 SCC (I) 220: AIR 1994 SC 1918. [Constitution of India, Article 356 (1)]