I do not want to write right now because I just drove over 500 kms and is supposed to hit the road again in another 7 hours (only came home to sleep)
Trust me I have eyelids pushed by force as the fingers chose to run a marathon on the keyboard. The laptop screen is painful but HEY! It is about consistency. It is about Constitution.
Why did the title call Constitution a trash?
Well, I don’t have any story to it. I just wanted to catch your attention for a fun story.
We all have sang patriotic songs on August 15 and January 26 in school. Almost all of us wore white uniform to perform march pasts, embrace tricolor and satiate the taste buds with free treat that school offered on the national ‘fun’ holidays.
As you read this, I assume you know today’s date. It is November 26.
Wait! If the country became a Republic on Jan 26, why’s constitution day on Nov 26?
I’d want to create some mystery around this but as I said, I am tired. I’d directly tell you the story. It was on Nov 26 1949 that Constitution was ready. Not just that, Election, Citizenship and Provisional Parliament came into force on November 26 1949 itself.
The story is: It was in January 1930 (~19 years before Nov 26 1949) on the banks of Ravi in Lahore that Indian National Congress leaders met to vow for Purna Swaraj. The day of 26th January 1930 was so chosen to be celebrated as the Independence Day. The leaders pledged for the complete freedom.
17 years later, circumstances changed and the country became independent on August 15 1947. Since the Independence Day was ‘taken’, the poetic relevance of January 26 found reference in the new ‘Republic’ as the day of formal adoption of the constitution.
Bass itni si baat hai. Such is the impact of 26 November that even our preamble reads the date as November 26 (not Jan 26!)
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