We celebrate 26th Jan every year. And I probably knew very little bit about the day apart from the fact that, on this day we became a republic and adopted the constituion.
Just thought will find out more about the importance of the day and constitution. Here are few points I found interesting about the day ...
1. India ie. Bharat is a Union of States. It is a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic with a parliamentary system of government. The Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949 and came into force on 26th January 1950.
2. It was on this date in 1927 that the Indian National Congress, then fighting its non-violent war for freedom, voted for complete independence as against 'dominion status'. When members of the INC took the pledge to work towards a 'sovereign democratic republic' of India.
3. Borrowing from the Constitutions of other countries, for example, the parliamentary form of government from Britain, supremacy of judiciary from the United States, federal system with a strong centre from Canada, directive principles of state policy from Ireland, the idea of concurrent powers and co-operative federalism from Australia, the system of procedure established by law from Japan, the Indian Constitution is an amalgam of all these
4. The constitutional head of the Executive of the Union is the President. The council of the Parliament of the Union consists of the President and two Houses to be known as the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and the House of the People (Lok Sabha). The Constitution provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers with a Prime Minister as its head to aid and advise the President, who shall exercise his functions in accordance to the advice. The real executive power is thus vested in the Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister as its head.
5. The Constitution distributes legislative powers between Parliament and State legislatures as per the lists of entries in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. The residual powers vest in the Parliament. The centrally administered territories are called Union Territories.
2 comments:
I would assume that is was a slip on your part, but you left out the word "Secular" in the description.
The preamble says
"WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ... "
the words Socialist and Secular having been added via the 42nd amendment in 1976.
yeah .. sure ... i know tht u have read the complete constitution .. man, thts some achievement !!
But yes .. the people who added the words "secular" really understood the indian culture and ethos ... thts in line with the "sanatan hindu dharma" in my opinion ... the way for ages, india (hindustan) has literally absorbed religions like buddhism, jainism, sikhism etc ... and even islam ... without any "clash of civilizations" ...
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