It is the longest written constitution of any country on earth. It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 26 November 1949. The words’secular’ and’socialist’ were added to the preamble in 1976. It took almost three years to draft the constitution.
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The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It is the longest written constitution of any country on earth. It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 26 November 1949. The words’secular’ and’socialist’ were added to the preamble in 1976. The original 1950 constitution is preserved in a helium-filled case at the Parliament House in New Delhi. The constitution declares India a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic, assuring its citizens justice, equality and liberty, and endeavours to promote fraternity. It replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the country’s fundamental governing document. The Constitution was drawn from a number of sources. It took almost three years to draft the constitution holding eleven sessions over a 165-day period. Most of the colonial India was under British rule from 1857 to 1947. From 1947 to 1950, the same legislation continued to be implemented as India was a dominion of Britain for these three years, as each princely state was convinced by Sardar Patel and V. P. Menon to sign the articles of integration with India. The latter, which led to the creation of India and Pakistan, divided the former Constituents Assembly in two. Each new assembly had sovereign power to draft and enact a new constitution for the separate states. It became effective on 26 January 1950. India ceased to be a Dominion of the British Crown and became a sovereign democratic republic with the constitution.
The first speaker of the Lok Sabha after India turned into a republic was B. R. Ambedkar. He is widely considered to be the chief architect of the Constitution. He was the chairman of the drafting committee, which took place in 1928 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and is known as the Nehru Report. He died in 1953, but his name is still recognised as the ‘father’ of India’s constitution. He has been described as ‘India’s leading constitutional scholar’ and a ‘wonderful statesman and statesman’ by the Indian people. The current Lok Sabha speaker is V. V. Mavlankar, who was the first speaker after India became a republic after the first Lok Sabha Speaker after the Second World War. His name is also known as ‘B.R.Ambedkar’ and he is the ‘chief architect’ of the current constitution. His death in 1953 is remembered as ‘the day when India became the Republic of India’ He is also the ‘greatest constitutional scholar of all time’ and is credited with creating the modern democracy in the country. The ‘father of the constitution’ died in 1954, but he is still regarded as ‘one of the greatest constitutional thinkers of the 20th century’ He was also the founder of the Indian National Congress party, which came into existence in 1955. His son, B.B. AmBedkar, is the current president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was formed in 1957. The B.C.P. party is the largest political party in India.
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