26 January: Constitution of India
Debate on constitution
According to a Rajya Sabha TV documentary, during 1857, revolutionaries also tried hard to make India's own constitution but the rebellion ended and the work remained incomplete. In 1914, Sh. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, the Guru of the Father of the Nation, presented the Indian Constitution to the British Government. At that time, the British said, after the war, we will accept this constitution, but something else was going on in their mind. In fact, they wanted to make a constitution for us which was not acceptable to Indians.
Started with 'Cabinet Mission'
Well, after much struggle, three cabinet ministers of British Government were sent together to India and it was called 'Cabinet Mission'. The meeting started in Shimla and on behalf of the Congress, its president Maulana Azad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan were present in the meeting. At the same time, Liaquat Ali Khan, Jinnah, Nawab Ismail Khan and Sardar Nishtar from the Muslim League and Nawab Mohammad Hamidullah from the princely states joined.
Jinnah: If the Constitution is made by the Congress, then the dreams of Muslims in the country will be shattered, so we Muslims should make our own separate constitution.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: This cannot be accepted. We have gathered here to decide the future of united India, not to fragment India. And, if this is the purpose of this mission, then we have no business here.
Sir Stafford Cripps (British Cabinet Minister): In this situation I have to cancel this meeting and this meeting was canceled without any conclusion. Cabinet mission failed.
Constituent Assembly meeting once again decided
After some time, the British government immediately agreed due to fear of any major action by Indians and it was decided to meet the Constituent Assembly to make the Constitution of India within three days after Pandit Nehru returned to India. During the meeting, Pandit Nehru, in his resolution, talked about India's integrity, integrity and autonomy, from equality and unity of all in the new India.
Pandit Nehru: You saw Maulana in Churchill's honor! People in the House of Commons say that the Congress party's attempt to run a Hindu rule on the strength of the majority can become a threat to the unity of India. This unity is superficial, which the British government tried to sow while ruling here for years. This seed of unity led by an outsider will be destroyed.
Once again in the Constituent Assembly...
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee: The British Government is provoking the Muslim League.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar: Today we are all divided politically, economically and socially. We all have different camps. I myself am probably the leader of one such camp, but if time and circumstances exist, no one can stop this country from becoming one.
The fifth session of the Constituent Assembly began, a very historic day, August 15, 1947, after the partition of Hindustan and Pakistan.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Today, after years of struggle and struggle, we are going to take the reins of governance of our country. We should remember the Supreme Father, the God who creates the fate of humans and countries.
Pandit Nehru: In a few minutes this assembly will become a fully independent assembly and will represent an independent country. At that time when many countries will be sleeping, independent India will wake up and breathe freedom.
In this session, work was started to give the constitution a written form. During this period, in addition to the basic rights in our Constitution, the Directive elements of politics were also included. The constitution makers were very conscious about the minorities, so the Constitution was formulated keeping them in mind. All its meanings were discussed before writing each word. During this time there was also a proposal to abolish the princely states of all the princely states of India and make them part of India. This most important resolution of the constitution was passed, which was opposed by Jinnah and the princely states.
After the enactment of many types of laws, now it is said that what will be the language of the country? The debate broke out. Pandit Nehru wanted Hindustani to be the national language and even before his death Mahatma Gandhi had expressed his desire in a newspaper called Harijan that the language of Hindustan should be mixed with the words of the state language of the entire country. In a meeting of the Congress Committee, it was proposed that the national language of India would be Hindustani, while many said that the national language of India would be Hindi. Voting took place and the Hindi language and numbers law was passed with great difficulty. After a lot of hard work, many amendments, many difficulties, after many debates, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and his committee had done a very big work after 2 years 11 months 17 days. Now we had our own constitution, our own rules and laws, and in true sense our country was also independent.
On 24 January 1950, this Constitution was signed by all the members and the first President of the new republic, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, was elected. Also on this day, Jana Gana Mana was adopted for the national anthem of our country and Vande Mataram for the national anthem. In this way, on 26 January 1950, that day also came, when our own constitution was made for India by Indians and got our own constitution.
According to a Rajya Sabha TV documentary, during 1857, revolutionaries also tried hard to make India's own constitution but the rebellion ended and the work remained incomplete. In 1914, Sh. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, the Guru of the Father of the Nation, presented the Indian Constitution to the British Government. At that time, the British said, after the war, we will accept this constitution, but something else was going on in their mind. In fact, they wanted to make a constitution for us which was not acceptable to Indians.
Started with 'Cabinet Mission'
Well, after much struggle, three cabinet ministers of British Government were sent together to India and it was called 'Cabinet Mission'. The meeting started in Shimla and on behalf of the Congress, its president Maulana Azad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan were present in the meeting. At the same time, Liaquat Ali Khan, Jinnah, Nawab Ismail Khan and Sardar Nishtar from the Muslim League and Nawab Mohammad Hamidullah from the princely states joined.
Jinnah: If the Constitution is made by the Congress, then the dreams of Muslims in the country will be shattered, so we Muslims should make our own separate constitution.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: This cannot be accepted. We have gathered here to decide the future of united India, not to fragment India. And, if this is the purpose of this mission, then we have no business here.
Sir Stafford Cripps (British Cabinet Minister): In this situation I have to cancel this meeting and this meeting was canceled without any conclusion. Cabinet mission failed.
Constituent Assembly meeting once again decided
After some time, the British government immediately agreed due to fear of any major action by Indians and it was decided to meet the Constituent Assembly to make the Constitution of India within three days after Pandit Nehru returned to India. During the meeting, Pandit Nehru, in his resolution, talked about India's integrity, integrity and autonomy, from equality and unity of all in the new India.
Pandit Nehru: You saw Maulana in Churchill's honor! People in the House of Commons say that the Congress party's attempt to run a Hindu rule on the strength of the majority can become a threat to the unity of India. This unity is superficial, which the British government tried to sow while ruling here for years. This seed of unity led by an outsider will be destroyed.
Once again in the Constituent Assembly...
Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee: The British Government is provoking the Muslim League.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar: Today we are all divided politically, economically and socially. We all have different camps. I myself am probably the leader of one such camp, but if time and circumstances exist, no one can stop this country from becoming one.
The fifth session of the Constituent Assembly began, a very historic day, August 15, 1947, after the partition of Hindustan and Pakistan.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Today, after years of struggle and struggle, we are going to take the reins of governance of our country. We should remember the Supreme Father, the God who creates the fate of humans and countries.
Pandit Nehru: In a few minutes this assembly will become a fully independent assembly and will represent an independent country. At that time when many countries will be sleeping, independent India will wake up and breathe freedom.
In this session, work was started to give the constitution a written form. During this period, in addition to the basic rights in our Constitution, the Directive elements of politics were also included. The constitution makers were very conscious about the minorities, so the Constitution was formulated keeping them in mind. All its meanings were discussed before writing each word. During this time there was also a proposal to abolish the princely states of all the princely states of India and make them part of India. This most important resolution of the constitution was passed, which was opposed by Jinnah and the princely states.
After the enactment of many types of laws, now it is said that what will be the language of the country? The debate broke out. Pandit Nehru wanted Hindustani to be the national language and even before his death Mahatma Gandhi had expressed his desire in a newspaper called Harijan that the language of Hindustan should be mixed with the words of the state language of the entire country. In a meeting of the Congress Committee, it was proposed that the national language of India would be Hindustani, while many said that the national language of India would be Hindi. Voting took place and the Hindi language and numbers law was passed with great difficulty. After a lot of hard work, many amendments, many difficulties, after many debates, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and his committee had done a very big work after 2 years 11 months 17 days. Now we had our own constitution, our own rules and laws, and in true sense our country was also independent.
On 24 January 1950, this Constitution was signed by all the members and the first President of the new republic, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, was elected. Also on this day, Jana Gana Mana was adopted for the national anthem of our country and Vande Mataram for the national anthem. In this way, on 26 January 1950, that day also came, when our own constitution was made for India by Indians and got our own constitution.
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