The Ideals Of Our Freedom Fighters Is Passed On Through The Indian Constitution

26 November 1949 – on this date, we adopted our Constitution of free India. However, it’s a different matter that today that freedom is termed as ‘bheek.’ However, this Constitution came into effect on 26 January 1950.

I would like to start this article by highlighting some important features of the Indian Constitution.

1. It states that India is a sovereign country having all rights to decide for itself without outside interference.
2. Source of power for the people of India and government organizations.
3. It also gives Indian people fundamental rights and talks about duties to be performed by the Indian people. The most important part of fundamental duties is to respect the Indian flag and freedom fighters. Although it’s a different matter that nowadays, their image is tarnished like we owe nothing to them.

I don’t want this article to sound like an answer or just a piece of facts and data. So I mentioned only these, as I thought it’s necessary to talk about them.

Journey Of The Indian Constitution From The Time Of Independence

Our Constitution has gone through a lot of amendments and stood like a path shower in many instances. However, you may recall some landmark judgments which were remarkable in their way like the Kesavananda Bharti Judgement (1973). The Indian constitution journey is incomplete to trace without this landmark judgement. S.M Sikri was the chief justice of India and head for this judgement, who was behind this judgement.

The Indian Constitution has been amended many times till now and is still open for changes. Some crucial amendments I would like to mention are the 42nd Constitutional Amendment (1976) which is also referred to as the “mini-constitution of India.” This amendment inserted words like “socialist”, “secular”, and “integrity” in the preamble.

The supreme court took some unprecedented steps based on interpretation of the Constitution, like the Indira Sawhney judgement. In contemporary times a landmark judgment by the supreme court was that the supreme court said that economic criteria would not be the sole criteria for reservations and the active role of the supreme court to take immediate actions on air pollution.

Relevance Of Indian Constitution

Here, I would like to quote the recent movie ‘Jai Bhim’ based on the 1995 judgment. I want to say that the Constitution acts as a light of hope for Indian citizens, especially for deprived people. This judgement showed the power of the Constitution and a perfect example of the ‘rule of law.’

It also talks about the role of different organizations, especially how a state (Indian government) can establish a welfare state or how a progressive government should act through directive principles of state policy, which is inspired by Gandhian and liberal ideologies.

Indian Constitution also talks about the character or conduct of individual and nations identity like developing scientific temper and respecting Indian values. It also sets standards for basic nations’ identity like liberty, equality, fraternity. So an individual can be inspired by the Indian Constitution about the exemplary conduct of behaviour and develop values based on it.

In the end, it’s the Constitution through which the ideas of our freedom fighters and stalwart leaders are passed from generation to generation. Here, I would like to mention Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, whose soul is still alive among Indians through his ideas and principles mentioned in the Indian Constitution. According to him, article 32, which talks about constitutional remedies, is ‘the soul of Indian constitution’, and he is the soul of the Indian Constitution.