The Constitution of India

Can anybody tell me what is the definition of the Constitution? Come on, I’m not asking for a bookish definition or web searched definition (Googled one, that is what they say nowadays). THiNK and answer. Ok, leave it. Keep your answers to yourself. But, have you ever tried (we hardly try for anything other than gal) to KNOW our Constitution.

From what I could figure out, the reasons behind this reluctance to know about The Constitution is:

• WE HAVE HEARD, it is too lengthy

• WE HAVE HEARD, it is so confusing and vague

• WE HAVE HEARD, it is mostly COPIED from many other constitutions (we don’t know any of them either)

• WE HAVE HEARD, it is supposed to be studied (?!) by LLB students only

• WE HAVE HEARD, constitution means mostly jurisdiction wala part only (and you know, how much I hate court and all stuff)

• Does it matter if I don’t know about the constitution? Why the hell I should worry about it at all

• The Constitution?! Is it any holy book like Geeta, Quran, Bible?? Oh, I’m an atheist.

• They don’t know anything about this and

• They think that all this is non-sense and doesn’t matter to his/her life.

Guys (here, this word is used for both genders), wake up. We talk about things which we don’t even know about. Basic things like, how are commissions formed? How are bills passed? What is the implication of a particular bill on everybody’s life? We all MUST know all this. Otherwise, the topic of discussion in XYZ Restaurant on some fine weekend is Lokpal Bill and what we know is Anna Hazare and his hunger strike unto death.

Again we have WATCHED in some MOVIES that commissions are formed and dissolved without any strong action. But before getting angry about the situation, we must first know what exactly the situation is. We should not follow the herds (I remind you because human species are blessed with a brain).

India is observing a dynamic political revolution. Now it’s your call, to be in the audience and comment, critic, close eyes or be the part of the change. Please note that, to know the constitution is not the only way to be active in dynamic political revolution but it will surely refine & strengthen your views towards changes.

We vote for a person to work for the betterment of the society, but we don’t even know what exactly s/he does. Whether s/he even attends parliament/assembly sessions or not. And the very first thing is, is s/he aware of local problems or not? The only period when our MLA/MP/Contestant of MLA/MP visits our local area is a few months prior to the election.

We have HEARD that, the government has implemented SOMETHING (they mean, Govt Yojana) to the Gram Panchayat level too (come on man, we live in METRO, who cares about Gram Panchayat and farms (& farmers too)). But we should know how all these things are interconnected. We know that many people even don’t talk about politics and governance at all. The basic reasons:

But, if you see, all this is very well connected to our life. Our day-to-day activity is affected by all the decisions taken in the parliament/assembly. 

If you are still reading this blog post and could come to this line without getting bored, I recommend you to read our very well elaborated constitution (the good news is, “Constitution of India” app is also available). You can use http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/const.html

Be an active, knowledgeable, expressive part of the political revolution of India.

Jai Hind!

DUTY || HONOR || COURAGE