Happy republic day. 56 years ago, our State – India became a republic Nation. Let me tell the importance of republic day
Soon after British declared that they would give independence to India, the hefty and challenging work of framing a constitution for this vast country began. Elections were held to elect representatives from each province who could enter the constituent assembly.
These constituent assembly would debate on all the subjects and come out with the constitution. There were many changes right from 1945 to 1947 in the structure of the constituent assembly.
I won’t proceed to say much about the constitution. But in 1949, the draft of the constitution was ready. But it had not come into force yet. This date of January 26th has lot of significance. Earlier, this date was declared by the Congress as the target to obtain “poorNa swaraaj.” So Indian leaders had a sentimental attachment towards this date and they wanted this day to be the republic day.
Why republic day?
On 26th January 1950, our constitution came into force. Till then our head was the Queen of England. But after the coming of the constitution, the head of the nation were the people themselves. The constitution declared that the people would be sovereign. And that the state would be a republic. Republic means to say that it is a non-monarchical rule. It signifies that the heads of the State would be the people. So from this day, our country became republic. This day signifies the coming to effect of our consitution.
On this bright day, lets salute our freedom fighters who dreamt of having a great Nation, our constitutional makers who brought to the constitution, the ideals of our freedom fighters. Let us try to work for the development of our Nation.
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