18+ Amazing Facts about Indian Constitution

The highest position in the country is in the Indian Constitution. Government, Supreme Court, President, Prime Minister, no one is above this. Everyone is working within its limits.

1. The Constitution of India is a hand-written document, not a machine. It was written by “Prem Bihari Narayan Raizada” with his own hands in italic style and each of its pages was decorated with the hands of two artists of Shantiniketan, “Bewahar Rammanohar Sinha” and “Nandlal Bose”.

2. The Indian Constitution is the longest written constitution in the world. It is divided into 25 parts, which contain 448 articles and 12 schedules. Its English version contains a total of 117,369 words, which used a total of 254 pen nibs and took 6 months to write. Approximately ₹6.3 crore was spent on this entire work.

3. The original copies of the English and Hindi versions of the Constitution are kept in the helium box in the Library of Parliament House.

4. The first assembly to frame the Constitution met on December 9, 1946 and it took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days to make it. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected the President of the Constituent Assembly and Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was made the Chairman of this committee.

5. The total number of members of the Constituent Assembly was fixed at 389, of which 292 were representatives of the British Provinces, 4 were representatives of the Chief Commissioner’s Territories and 93 were representatives of the Princely States. This number later reduced to 299. Hyderabad was the only princely state whose representatives did not participate in the Constituent Assembly.

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6. The Constitution of India was prepared on 26 November 1949 but it officially came into force on 26 January 1950 and we also celebrate this day as Republic Day.

7. 26th January was chosen as the date for implementing the Constitution because it was the anniversary of “Purna Swaraj Day”.

8. Before the Indian Constitution was finalized, it was put up for discussion and debate and more than 2000 amendments were made in it.

9. The Indian Constitution also has the signatures of 284 members of the Constituent Assembly, out of which 15 were women. Most of the members had signed their signatures in English and some also in Hindi.. ‘Abul Kalam Azad’ had signed his signatures in Urdu.

10. On 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force, when it was being signed in Parliament, it was raining and the members of the Constituent Assembly considered it auspicious. This was the last meeting of the Constituent Assembly and on the same day Dr. Rajendra Prasad was also elected as the first President of India by the Constituent Assembly.

11. Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was the first Law Minister of independent India and also the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly Committee, is called the “Father of the Indian Constitution”.

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12. The Indian Constitution has been taken from 10 different countries of the world, that is why it is also called “borrowed bag”. The basic structure of the Constitution is based on the ‘Government of India Act, 1935’.

• The idea of five-year planning was taken from the Soviet Union.
• The idea of socio-economic rights has been taken from Ireland.
• The provisions on trade and commerce are taken from the Constitution of Australia.
• The emergency provisions in the Indian Constitution have been taken from Germany.
• The law under which the Supreme Court works in India has been taken from Japan.
• The words “Liberty, Equality and Fatherhood” in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution are inspired by the French Revolution.
• The federal system, the union-state relationship, and the union-state separation of powers are derived from the Constitution of Canada.
• The preamble of the Indian Constitution is inspired by the Preamble of the US Constitution. Both the Preamble of the US Constitution and the Preamble of the Indian Constitution begin with “We the People”.

13. The Indian Constitution currently gives 6 fundamental rights to the citizens of India, which are taken from the US Constitution:-

• right to equality
• right to freedom
• right against exploitation
• right to freedom of religion
• cultural and educational rights
• right to constitutional remedies
• Interestingly, initially, the right to property was also a fundamental right. Article 31 of the Indian Constitution states that “No person can be deprived of his property”. But this right was removed in the 44th Amendment of the Constitution, 1978.

14. The national symbol of India ‘Sarnath’ which includes lion, Ashok Chakra, bull and horse… was adopted on 26 January 1950.

15. According to the Preamble of the Indian Constitution, India is a “federal, socialist, secular and democratic republic”. The word socialism was added through the 42nd amendment in 1976.

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16. According to the first article of the Indian Constitution, “India is a union of all the states” and Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar had also made it clear that India is a union, and no state has the right to separate from India. Is.

17. To promote awareness about the Constitution, 26th November is celebrated as “Constitution Day”.

18. The Constitution of India is considered one of the best constitutions in the world because till now only 102 amendments have been made in our Constitution.