Essays

26 January is celebrated as Republic Day in our country. On this day in 1950, the Constitution of our country was inaugurated. The fundamental law of the land, the Constitution, born out of the deligence, conscientiousness and hard labour of our founding lathers became supreme in our country on this day. Hence, the day has its own historical importance in the history of our nation.

Our Constitution is the fruit of the labour of the esteemed members of the Constituent Assembly under the Presidentship of Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Dr, B, R. Ambedkar is called the Father of our Constitution. After deeply studying the various constitutions of the world, our founding fathers framed our Constitution. It is one of the lengthiest constitutions of the world, The Constitution reflects upon the dedication and foresight of these great men,

The Constitution took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days to take its final shape. Though it was complete on November 26th, 1949 but it came into force on 26^th January 1950. The historical importance of this day goes back to 1930, when on this very day, Indian National Congress celebrated the country's first Independence Day by hoisting the Tri-colour on the banks of the Yamuna and on this day under the leadership of Pandit Nehru, the people* vowed to fight for total and complete independence of India.

Keeping in mind the importance of this day historically, it was decided to wait for sometime and enforce our Constitution by declaring India a Republic on January 26, 1950. Therefore, this day is celebrated as a National Day with great joy and pride.

In Delhi, this day is celebrated with great pomp and show. The grand and spectacular parade with its state-wise jhankis, tableaux, cultural dances and breathtaking shows in the sky by our daring Air Force personnel make this parade fascinating. This parade and procession embodies the slogan (if unity in diversity. It tries to capture the varied and diversified essence of Indian culture. Each state presents its procession in a unique way and tries to outdo the others in innovation and creativity.

This parade-cum procession is watched with equal enthusiasm by all—adults as well as children. Thousands of people in Delhi watch it in real and million of others watch it on television.

Security too is of the highest degree at this time, keeping with the importance of the day and the large number of people that throng to watch the parade. Everyone, with broad smile and proud face is seen celebrating this auspicious day in the history of the motherland.

Sadly, it seems that this zeal of nationalism gets ignited only on these two days—August 15 and January 26, Rest of the year our love tor the country gets into hibernation and sleeps warmly somewhere in the forgotten corners of our hearts. Rather, we should try to work harder to make our country a great power in the world. We, being the largest democracy in the world, can be the great moving power in the world towards global peace and spreading the feeling of mutual co-operation and co-existence.

Instead of merely participating with zeal and enthusiasm in our National Festivals, we should pledge to take India to greater heights and fulfil the dreams envisioned by our late leaders. The youth should come forward to fight the evils of casteism, corruption, illiteracy, poverty etc in order to make India a worthy Republic by giving India better leaders, administrators, doctors, engineers, teachers/ professionals, lawyers, etc.