Anantapur
Looking at the speeches of leaders and heads of government, from Delhi to Amaravati, on yesterday's Constitution Day, one might say, "Let people laugh, what do I care about shame?" as they were full of tricks, falsehoods, and lies.
In a time when every party in power drafts and implements its own constitution, the ruling classes, without shame, preach deceitfully that the Constitution is the pillar of the nation, the guiding document for the country, and that freedom and equality are its ideals. People are disgusted by these dishonest speeches.
Will justice be done to the constitutional document if the principles laid down in the Preamble—Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic; social, economic, and political justice; liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith, and worship—are buried, and only empty moralistic sermons are given? Just as the great Ambedkar said that the Constitution, if in the hands of good people, can change the fate of humans, but otherwise it becomes a scrap of paper—if the rulers turn the Constitution into a scrap of paper and give moralistic sermons to the nation every year on Constitution Day, will justice be done to the Preamble? Will the nation benefit? Thus, the Indian Constitution is weeping, as they say, "A theory without practice is blind, and practice without theory is deaf."
In this day and age, when the people lack the courage and strength to freely discuss and critically correct government policies, do the rulers have the right to talk about the Constitution? Shouldn't the rulers be ashamed that even today, minorities and Bahujans (majority people) in the country live with untouchability and a sense of insecurity, grappling with economic, social, and political inequalities? The Preamble of the Constitution will be alive only on the day people can speak freely, discuss, and criticize; otherwise, it is dead, K.V. Ramana alleged.
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