Constitution Day 2022: Signficance & some intersting facts about our Samvidhan

The present-day Constitution of India was drafted by the then Chairman of the drafting committee, Dr B. R Ambedkar, B.N Rau (the Constitutional advisor to the Constituent Assembly), and Surendranath Mukherjee (the Chief Draftsman of the Constituent Assembly). The powers vested in the Constitution that was drafted were that it superseded the Government of India Act of 1935 and the Indian Independence Act of 1947. According to the preamble, the Constitution of India pursues the resolution taken as an oath to constitute India into a "Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic". Sovereignty means supreme and ultimate power. The objectives of the preamble are to secure justice, liberty, and equality for all citizens. The signatories to the Constitution included Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhai Patel, and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, including 284 constituent assembly members.

The Constituent Assembly duly adopted the Constitution of India on November 26th, 1949. Hence, the Government of India declared November 26th, 2015, as Constitution Day. The laws of India and their implementation are enshrined in the Constitution. Therefore, November 26 is also called "National Law Day."

The Chief Advisor of the Constitution was Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, an ICS who was the first Indian judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and President of the United Nations Security Council. Sir Rau had prepared the initial draft of the Constitution. Dr B. R Ambedkar acknowledged the contributions of Sir Rau in his speech on November 25, 1949.


FAQs:

1. Who decorated the original version of the Constitution?
   Beohar Rammanohar Sinha and Nandalal Bose and artists from Shantiniketan.
2. Who was the calligrapher of the Constitution?
   Prem Behari Narain Raizada.