Thanks and Congratulations to GOI – Recognizing the importance of the Constitution Day

 

Thanks and Congratulations to GOI – Recognizing the importance of the Constitution Day

I again write today with regard to the Constitution Day though I wrote day before yesterday on the subject which may be excessed at: https://diplomatictitbits.blogspot.com/2025/11/constitution-day-november-26.html

I write this with a sense of gratitude to give thanks and congratulate the GOI under the stewardship of PM Narendra Modi for celebrating and observing the Constitution Day with all solemnity and dedication it deserved as our other National Days. My immediate motivation arose from the Social Media reports on all of our diplomatic missions
and posts throughout the world observing the Constitution Day in a befitting manner. It was also a matter of gratification that a statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Father of the Indian Constitution, was also unveiled at the UNESCO Headquarter in Paris (France). I will be

failing in my duty, if I don’t thank the MEA and EAM Dr. S. Jaishankar for taking right initiatives in this regard which would help in promoting India’s Cultural and Soft Diplomacy in the world at large. Though India’s main stream media has duly covered the official functions to observe the Day in which our top leadership including Mahamahim President of India, Vice President, PM, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, CJI, LOPs in the Parliament among others participated in the solemn functions at the Savidhan Bhawan (Parliament House) and Supreme Court of India yet I regret to add the main stream media tended to ignore the events in small and big
towns in the country and abroad, if my cursory observations are correct. On the other hand, it is again a matter of satisfaction, ever since GOI formally started to observe the Constitution Day in 2015; the Constitution Day has attracted the attention of the masses, if I simply go by the Social Media reports on the functions and events throughout India and beyond. It is a good sign as constitutional awareness and knowledge is bound to add to our efforts to strengthen our democratic and secular credentials which are the very edifice of India that is Bharat – Constitutional Governance with Constitutional Morality to make India a Vikshit Bharat in the years to come. I am

confident these developments to keep the Constitution of India at a high pedestal would send a right message to the vested and negative forces within the country that tend to undermine and negate the Constitutional framework of India so laboriously given to us by our forefathers led by Babasaheb Ambedkar. I participated in an event to observe the Constitution Day at a befitting function at Jalandhar Ambedkar Bhawan to join my fellow countrymen.

With this I come to another issue which requires immediate attention of PM Narendra Modi and EAM S. Jaishankar; April 14, birthday of Babasaheb Ambedkar, as the International Day of Equality under the aegis of UN. It is high time to open the cup-boards of MEA and PMO and consider this proposal which is resting with the GOI since June, 2015. I have been writing and reminding on the subject

regularly but so far GOI is blissfully silent. Many cities and provinces in the USA, Canada, the UK among others have, taking cue from the proposal on International Day of Equality with the help of outfits of Indian diaspora, have proclaimed April 14, birthday of the greatest son of India, Babasaheb Ambedkar, as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Day of Equality locally.  I take this opportunity again to humbly remind the GOI to wake up and not only honour the Indian icon but also add yet another feather to the Cultural and Soft Diplomacy of India in line with the International Day of Non-violence - October 2, birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and International Day of Yoga; Indian Mantra of physical and mental well-being. My last letter in this regard may be perused at: https://diplomatictitbits.blogspot.com/2025/08/international-day-of-equality-honouring.html

I recall a poetic assertion of Alama Iqbal to recognize the rising profile of Babasaheb Ambedkar in view of is increasing space globally –

Uthaye Kuch Waraq Lale Ne, Kuch Nargis Ne, Kuch Gul Ne
Chaman Mein Har Taraf Bikhri Huwi Hai Dastan Meri

(Some leaves were picked up by the tulip, some by the narcissus, some by the rose
My story is scattered around everywhere in the garden)

Urha Li Qumriyon Ne, Tootiyon Ne, Andleebon Ne
Chaman Walon Ne Mil Kar Loot Li Tarz-e-Faghan Meri

(The turtle‐doves, parrots, and nightingales pilfered away
The garden’s denizens jointly robbed away my plaintive way)