64TH REPUBLIC DAY! ZINDABAAD!!

Congratulations to all of you on 64th republic day! It is momentous day for we all. It is a day to celebrate our status as a sovereign, democratic and republic state. I would like to quote here a part of the special message of the first president of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad and I quote  “we must rededicate ourselves on this day to the peaceful but sure realization of the dream that had inspired the Father of nation and other captains and soldiers of our freedom struggle, the dream of establishing a classless society, co-operative, free and happy society.” We must remember that this is more a day of dedications than of rejoicing.
                  Now let’s introspect and see whether we have taken this message in its true sense and made a society of his dream. Can we say that we are a sovereign nation as our government at centre is compromising with the foreign and economical policies under pressure of the superpower? Although we have elections after every five years to elect our government, can we say that these elections are free and fair? Money power and muscle powers have hijacked our democracy and the politics today is criminalized up to a large extent. People are being divided on the basis of caste &creed and religion & region. Now we do not want to identify ourselves as Indian, instead we are proud to be called Brahmin, Rajput, forwards, backwards, SCs and STs or Hindu, Muslim, Christians, Sikhs or Marathi, Telugu, Dravidian, Punjabi, Guajarati, Bengali, Bihari etc. The emergence of these new identities has divided our societies in many blocks. Even we have forgot out class and class interest. Farmers are no longer only farmers and labours are no longer only labours. The most oppressed and exploited part of our society, women, are also being dragged in the name of identity of their caste and religion. They are still deprived of their social and political rights.
                            Today is the day when our country had adopted the constitution in 1950, that incorporates many articles and sub articles to guide the state to work for its people. As per our constitution our state is secular and all the citizen of our country have equal right irrespective of their religious faith, caste-creed, region and gender. It professes unity in diversity. The state machinery takes oath to safeguard the constitution. But does it do that? If yes, then a historical monument would not have been demolished.
                   After 63 years of our constitution, we still find inequality, injustice, social and gender discrimination in our society. Untouchability is rampant and manifests into various newly emerging forms of atrocities against SCs and STs. That reflects that we still have a long way to go to fulfil the dream of establishing a classless, co-operative, free and happy society. On the auspicious occasion of republic day let’s pledge to work in this direction and dedicate ourselves to fulfil the dream of our ancestors.