Republic@75: The country is not becoming a Vishwa Guru (world leader) without any reason

Republic@75: The country is not becoming a Vishwa Guru (world leader) without any reason, a lot has changed in the long journey of 75 years, read the story of developing India

Republic day 2025 The energy that was seen for nation building after the implementation of the Constitution on 26 January 1950 has been continuously getting stronger for the last seven and a half decades. Behind the increasing series of achievements is our Constitution which makes us disciplined, dedicated and hardworking. Let us know what has happened in the country in the last 75 years.

Republic day 2025   We got independence from the British in 1947, but we started living the true meaning of independence in 1950. The energy that was seen for nation building in its own ways since the implementation of the Constitution on 26 January 1950 has been continuously getting stronger for the last seven and a half decades.

On the strength of its immense human resources, India is moving from being a developing country to a developed country on the path of self-reliance. The world is looking at us. Our voice is being interpreted on every global platform.

Behind our growing series of achievements, it is our Constitution that makes us disciplined, dedicated and hardworking.

It has given us rights which have also reminded us of our duties. It is because of these rights granted by the Constitution that India is once again being seen as its old image of a Vishwa Guru (world leader). Mahendra Pratap Singh recalls such milestones related to citizen welfare and nation building...

right to vote for all

• The Election Commission was set up on 25 January 1950, just a day before the Constitution came into force. It is no coincidence that the first major legislative measure of the Indian Republic was to implement the constitutional commitment to grant the right to vote to all.
• This was done through the Representation of the People Acts 1950 and 1951. While the 1950 Act laid down the procedure and machinery for the preparation of electoral rolls and demarcation of constituencies, the 1951 Act provided for the conduct of elections, from notification to declaration of results.
• Many amendments have been made in these Acts so far. For example, the period of campaigning has been reduced from one month to 15 days. 

Not only this, agricultural reform law was also brought in the country

hindu code bill 

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar introduced the Hindu Code Bill in Parliament in February 1951. The bill faced so much opposition that he resigned as law minister within seven months. It was only after winning the first Lok Sabha election in 1952 that the Nehru government pushed the Hindu reform agenda forward. The Hindu Marriage Act 1955 was revolutionary. It outlawed polygamy and introduced the concept of divorce in a community that believed marriage was a sacrament that bound a couple together for life. The Hindu Succession Act 1956 gave women full ownership of their share in family property instead of the limited rights traditionally granted.

attack on untouchability 

The Constitution abolished untouchability for the first time. A law penalizing various forms of untouchability, the Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955, was enacted. This law was limited to cases of caste prejudice and discrimination, so the Rajiv Gandhi government enacted the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 to deal with caste-based violence.

Reorganisation of States 

• The Seventh Constitutional Amendment, enacted in 1956, introduced the concepts of linguistic states and union territories.
• There was a demand for creating states on the basis of language across the country, but it gained momentum due to the hunger strike of Potti Sriramulu in 1952. His hunger strike was for creating Andhra state by merging Telugu speaking districts of Madras state.
• After the formation of Andhra State in 1953, the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) was appointed. The Commission did not agree with the idea of ​​redrawing boundaries on a purely linguistic basis.
• Though the SRC had recommended the formation of a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital, the government bowed to pressure from Andhra leaders and merged the two Telugu-speaking regions to form Andhra Pradesh in 1956.
• The SRC recommended that Bombay remain a united state comprising the Gujarati and Marathi-speaking districts, but the government accepted the demand in 1960 to form Maharashtra comprising all the Marathi-speaking districts.

anti-defection law

Rajiv Gandhi's government brought in the long-pending anti-defection law in 1985 in the form of the 52nd Constitutional Amendment. This made defection difficult but there was still scope for it. Politicians exploited a loophole under which defection of at least one-third of the members of the legislative party was considered a split. The Vajpayee government removed this loophole with the 91st Constitutional Amendment in 2003. Now defection can happen only through mergers, where at least two-thirds of the members of the legislative party agree to merge with another.

Panchayati Raj Act

The Gandhian dream of gram swaraj (village self-governance) came true in 1992. The central government pushed through the 73rd Constitutional Amendment. Apart from taking democracy to the grassroots level, the Panchayati Raj Act reserved one-third of the constituencies for women. This was a provision that had been repeatedly blocked at the governance level. This was followed by the 74th Constitutional Amendment, which institutionalised municipalities in urban areas.

right to Information

In 2005, the Right to Information Act (RTI) came into force in India. It changed the face of governance and administration. This law proved to be a weapon for the common people, which wrote a new chapter of transparency and accountability. RTI gave every citizen the right to demand any kind of information from government authorities. Dailymintz