India is a democaratic Republic

India, that is Bharat

India is a democaratic Republic: Indian Nation, that is Bharat, became a Sovereign Democratic Republic on 26 January 1950. In fact this date of 26th January 1930 was the date on which first Independence day, Poorna Swaraj Diwas, was celebrated under the aegis of Indian National Congress.

And it should be noted that till December 1929 Congress fought for Swaraj only asking for Dominion status just like Canada and Australia within British empire. But Bose and Nehru prevailed upon Gandhi and Patel to change the mode of freedom struggle to drive the British out fully from the soil of India for ever. At last Congress declared Poorna Swaraj its sole aim in December 1929.

And it is also important to note that there was not a single English man in the The Constituent Assembly. All the members were Indians elected by the People of India. And the Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December 1946 and conducted its sessions debating each and every Article threadbare till 26th November 1949. And ultimately adopted the Constitution on 26th January 1950 declaring India a Sovereign Democratic Republic.

Jawaharlal Nehru

On 13.12.1946 first Assembly meeting was held with Sachchidananda Sinha as provisional chairman. At that time the scope of the Assembly was delineated by Jawaharlal Nehru like this, “The first task of this Assembly is to free India through a new Constitution, to feed the starving people, and to clothe the naked masses, and to give every Indian the fullest opportunity to develop himself according to his capacity. This is certainly a great task. Look at India today. We, are sitting here and there in despair in many places, and unrest in many cities. The atmosphere is surcharged with these quarrels and feuds which are called communal disturbances, and unfortunately, we sometimes cannot avoid them.

But at present the greatest and most important question in India is how to solve the problem of the poor and the starving. Wherever we turn, we are confronted with this problem. If we cannot solve this problem soon, all our paper Constitutions will become useless and purposeless. Keeping this aspect in view, who could suggest to us to postpone and wait?”

Originally Jawaharlal Nehru and Sachchidananda Sinha created the first draft of Indian Constitution. B N Rau also furnished a draft constitution as an Advisor to Constituent Assembly. It must be remembered that B N Rau was instrumental in the preparation of Government of India Act 1935 with respect to Federal structure of the Indian Unioin.

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During the process of drafting of the Constitution the Objectives Of Indian Constitution and goals of The Constitution were articulated in a resolution proposed by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and ratified by the Legislative Council on December 13, 1946. This resolution was based on Karachi resolution of AICC in 1931 which was drafted by Jawaharlal Nehru. The resolution’s central tenets were as follows:

India should be declared an independent sovereign republic by Resolve.