Dr Babasaheb on Republic day On 26th january 1950 , we are going to enter into a life of contradictions . In politics , we will have equality and in social and economic structure , continue to deny the principle of one man one value . How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions ? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life ? If we continue to deny it for long , we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril . We must remore this contradiction at the earlist possible moment else those who suffer from democracy which this constitutent assembly has so laboriously built up. I feel that the constitution is workable , it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in war time . Indeed , if I may say so , if things go wrong under the new constitution , the reason will not be that we had a bad constitution , what we will have to say is that Man is vile . There is no nation of Indians in the real sense of the world , it is yet to be created . In a great delusion . How can people divided into thousand of castes be a nation ? The sooner we realise that we are not yet a nation in a social and psychological sense of the world the better for us . Independence is no doubt a matter of joy . But let us not forget that this independence has thrown on us greater responsibilities . By independence , we have lost the excuse of blaming the British for anything go wrong we will have nobody to blame except ourselves . There is a greater danger of things going wrong . Times are fast changing. Our object in framing the constitution is rally two fold : 1* To lay down the form of political democracy and 2 * To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescibe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy . The directive principles have a great value for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy. ...
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 04:06:56 +0000
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