Why do we celebrate Republic Day ??

We, the citizens of India celebrate Republic day on 26th of January every year. How many of us really know the reason why this day is so auspicious to us? Come on, let us know.

India got independence on 15th of August 1947 from the British rule(United Kingdom) and was declared as independent country from then. But we do not have our own constitution by the time we got independence. So, as we have to frame our constitution, a drafting committee was formed on 4th of November 1947. We

then get a question in our minds, What do you mean by constitution? Why do we frame it? 

To get the definition is simple words, we can say that constitution is a book which has boundaries, rules and regulations which have to be followed by every citizen of India. We call Dr.B.R.Ambedkar as the father of constitution. Every article, every part, schedules, appendices, Amendments are designed and framed to direct the roles of government servants from the president, prime minister to a local government official who is on a government duty. It even speaks about the rights given to union territories, independent states to a grama panchayat, municipality.

At last, Our constitution was formed and came into power from January 26 1950. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the first president to take oath as a president after framing our own constitution. Before we got our independence, there was a governor general for each state, who is responsible to rule the state. Even after we got our independence, from August 15 1947 to January 25 1950 there was a governor general for each state. Our constitution says, we follow federal society which means there should be president and prime minister to govern the whole country whereas governor and chief minister to each state to govern them independently. The other point which we need to observe is, president hoists our flag on republic day and prime minister hoists our flag on independence day which says it all.

So, this day remarks as the day from which India's constitution came into force completing the country's transition toward becoming an independent republic. That is the reason we celebrate Republic day. JAI HIND.

                                                            Sandeep Kumar Gangisetty