Do We Have That Much Courage And Confidence To Execute Our Power And Rights?

The constitution of India was accepted and adopted by the constituent assembly on 26 November 1949 and after two months; it was implemented on 26 Jan 1950. The best thing came out of this constitution who gives an ultimate power to every citizen of this country is the fundamental rights which have been mentioned in article 14 to 32 of the constitution. It is so powerful that – if you think that your fundamental right is in danger, you can directly challenge the Supreme Court and Supreme Court is bound to listen to it.

That is great news - but, do we have that much courage and confidence to execute our power and rights…? Suppose we are going on the road, a traffic police stops us. Most of us get disturbed because we do not know what the power we have as a citizen of this country. According to article 20 and 22 of the fundamental rights, we have the power to ask our offenses, and that is his duty to explain you about your offenses to your satisfaction. If he fails to do so, you can sue him, and he can be suspended from his job. But most of the people find bribing is an easy option. They do not know that by doing so they are not executing their fundamental duties towards the nation, which has been mentioned in article 51-A of the constitution. In this way, we encourage corruption in our country.

According to the section 171B of IPC 1860, the people who ask for a bribe should be behind the bar, not in the pub doing a party with our money. Do we have that much courage and confidence to do that? Do we have that much courage and confidence to pay the fine for the offenses we have done instead of bribing someone?

If you know your rights and basic laws of the land, two things predominately will happen with you-

1    1. You will have immense confidence in you and the constitution.

2    2. You will not break the rights of anyone because you know what the consequences you may face.

Many offenses are done by people because they do not know what could be its consequences or they do not know according to the law that is an offense. The constitution of India assumes that all the citizen of this country knows the law of the land. That means – not knowing the law of this country is illegal.

Do not ask what this country has done for us. This country has done the plethora of things for us. This country has created the base for our development. This country has provided the freedom to work here without any atrocity. Our ancestors have fought many deadly battles very bravely to make this country independence. They have lost their lives and luxury, so that, we can take our breath in a free country. Now, the time has come to ask ourselves what we can do for this country in our power and capacity.

This land has been a dwelling place of our forefathers. This land is a dwelling place for us. This land is going to provide a shelter for our children. This is our responsibility and fundamental duties to make this country beautiful and powerful. And this possible only when we throw our all wrong notions, assumptions, delusion, illusion and superstitions and be more logical, radical, rational, scientific and constitutional, only then we can expect that India is going to be superpower in coming years, it is going to regain its lost glory, its richness, and abundance.

Why did India remain a slave for so many years?

 Since the inception of the civilization, India has always been a center of attraction for the foreign invaders, because of its richness and abundance. Persian, Greece, Arabs, Turk, Mongol, Portuguese, Dutch and French came with their own ambitions and motives. They invaded, looted, plundered, massacred, exploited and ruled over us the way they wanted. We fought, but something went wrong and this mighty country became the slave of the handful people of foreign invaders. The major reason was – we were divided into states and we did not have one constitution of this country which could connect and collide the forces of the isolated states which could stand and fight against the foreign forces.

The first person who understood the need for one constitution of this country was – the great Chanakya. According to him – the nation or kingdom must run through the power of the constitution, not through the power of the king or any individuals.

He challenged the ferocious Nanda dynasty and the Nanda dynasty was replaced with Maurya dynasty. Chandragupta Maurya became the first empire of the Maurya dynasty. After the death of Chandragupta Maurya, his son Bindusar became the empire of the Maurya dynasty. During his reign, Chanakya became a victim of the royal conspiracy and was exiled to a forest where he died. Along with him, a dream of getting one constitution for this country also died and buried.

Foreign invasions continued. The last ruler who ruled this country was British rule. They ruled over us for 200 years. We fought for our freedom and on 15 August 1947, we got the freedom from the clutches of the British Empire. We got the freedom to form our government and run this country. That was the WOW moment. Congratulations… and it is time for celebrations. But hold one moment…

According to Indian Independence Act 1947, India and Pakistan got the status of the independent dominion states, not the complete freedom.

That means – you can form your government, you can run your country, but you are not free to take your own decision without the consent of the representative of the British Crown. By that time, we did not have a constitution, and the constitution is the power of any country. According to the Government of India Act 1935, all the power was with the British Crown. They had the power to dismiss our government and start ruling once again. Without our own constitution, we were made a puppet of the power of the British Crown.

That`s why, Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister of England during world war 2, said – you got the freedom, but you are not going to sustain it. Your country will fall apart and eventually, you will come back to us and beg us to rule over your country once again.

No doubt. Making the constitution of this country was a huge challenge, because of its diversity. India is the largest diversified country in this world. That challenge was given to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. He was appointed the chairman of the drafting committee of the constitution. They took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days to complete the constitution. It was accepted and adopted by constituent assembly on 26 November 1949 and after two months, it was implemented on 26 Jan 1950 and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of the Republic country. We got the power of the constitution. Under the article 395 of the constitution, we abrogated all the laws imposed on us by British rule. Now India has become Sovereign, Democratic and Republic country. We got a complete freedom, the Purna Swarajya.