The picture is dated June 7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Central Hall of Parliament House to attend the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting. Meanwhile, he bowed his head to the Constitution of India.
A special program will be held in the Central Hall of the Old Parliament on Tuesday to mark the completion of 75 years of the Constitution of the country. President Draupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhard, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and all MPs will be present in it.
President Draupadi Murmu and Vice President Dhankhad will address both houses in the programme. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will deliver the welcome address. A coin and postage stamp will also be issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution.
Apart from this, books titled 'Making of the Indian Constitution: A Glimpse' and 'Making of the Indian Constitution and its Glorious Journey' will be launched. Copies of the Constitution in Sanskrit and Maithili will also be published. A short film on the journey and historical significance of the making of the Indian Constitution will also be shown.
In fact, the Constituent Assembly passed the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, which was accepted by the country on 26 January 1950. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment issued a notification on 19 November 2015. It was said that November 26 should be celebrated as 'Constitution Day' every year. It aims to celebrate and promote constitutional values among citizens.
The manuscript of the constitution is in a black leather cover with gold engraving work.
Why was the Constitution not implemented on 26 November 1949? On 26 January 1930, the Congress gave the slogan of complete independence of the country. In his memory, we waited until January 26, 1950 to implement the Constitution. In 1929, the Lahore session of the Congress presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru took the oath of complete Swaraj for the first time.
In that convention, a demand was made from the British government that India be granted sovereign status by January 26, 1930. Purna Swaraj or Independence Day was then celebrated for the first time on January 26, 1930.
After this, Independence Day continued to be celebrated on January 26 till August 15, 1947, i.e. for the next 17 years. Due to the importance of this day, the Constitution of the country was enacted on 26 January 1950 and it was declared as Republic Day.
Original English copy of Prem Bihari Constitution had written
Prem Bihari writes on the original copy of the constitution. At that time he was considered the greatest calligrapher of the country.
The Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution after 2 years, 11 months and 17 days of labor. The original English copy of the Constitution has 1 lakh 17 thousand 369 words. It has 444 articles, 22 parts and 12 schedules.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar is credited with being the creator of the Constitution as he was the chairman of the drafting session of the Constituent Assembly. But Prem Bihari is the person who wrote the original copy of the constitution in English with his own hand. It took him 6 months for this work.
The country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru himself requested the calligrapher Prem Bihari to write the original copy of the Constitution. Prem Bihari accepted it but refused to take a fee in return.
It took Prem Bihari 6 months to write the constitution by hand. 432 nibs were worn during this period. Prem Bihari was given a room in the Constitution Hall, which later became the Constitution Club. The Constitution of India is the only constitution in the world in which every part is drawn.
It has images from Ram-Sita to Akbar and Tipu Sultan. A team led by Nandlal Bose of Shanti Niketan decorated them with their art. Their names are also written in the original copy of the Constitution.
The Hindi copy of the Constitution is handwritten by the calligrapher Vasant Krishna Vaidya. His paper is different. It is manufactured at Handmade Paper Research Centre, Pune. The Hindi copy of the constitution has 264 pages, weighing 14 kg.
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