Read the Indian Constitution on Constitution Day

The Preamble of the Constitution is its soul. The Preamble means that the basic ideals of the Indian Constitution were included in the Constitution through the Preamble. The preamble of the constitution includes all forms of freedom along with political, economic and social justice for the citizens. The preamble gives the message to the citizens to respect the individual and ensure the unity and integrity of the country through mutual brotherhood and fraternity. The aim of fraternity is to remove barriers like communalism, regionalism, casteism and linguisticism. The Preamble is read at various places including government offices on the occasion of Constitution Day on 26 November.

The Preamble of the Constitution is as follows –

“We the people of India, having resolved to constitute India into a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic and to provide to all its citizens

Resolved to achieve social, economic and political justice, freedom of thought, expression, belief, religion and worship, equality of status and opportunity and to promote fraternity ensuring in all of them the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation

In this Constituent Assembly today, the 26th day of November, 1949 AD “Miti Marg Shirsha Shukla Saptami, Samvat two thousand six Vikrami, hereby adopt, enact and dedicate to ourselves the Constitution.”

Let us tell you that the words ‘socialism’, ‘secular’ and ‘integrity of the nation’ were added to the preamble by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act 1976 during the Emergency in Indira Gandhi’s regime. These words were not there before.

The words sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic and republic included in the constitution tell about the nature of India and the words justice, liberty and equality about the rights enjoyed by the citizens of India.