| 26th January in India | | | | Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Dalits. |
| Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate. | | | | We had been calling ourselves as a ' golden sparrow' |
| It is on record that on 26th January, 1950 the people | | | | and we are not achieving the same position in spite |
| of India adopted the Constitution of India and | | | | of the fact that we are a rich country as far as |
| declared themselves as a democracy and since then | | | | blessings from the side of God are concerned. We |
| they have been electing the people to man their | | | | have been blessed with mountains, rivers, minerals, |
| houses at the centre and at the states. That is the | | | | jungles, fertile land, gases, petroleum, coals, irons and |
| reason, the people of India are claiming that they are | | | | all those basics on which a progressive community |
| the largest democracy in the world. They are also | | | | could have been achieved, but we could not achieve |
| great that they could maintain their democracy | | | | these targets. We are still behind because the people |
| except some period when one of the Prime Ministers | | | | who had been occupying seats of power were not |
| declared 'Emergency' and during that period the | | | | competent people and in facts these people had |
| people got a break in democracy and they call this | | | | converted this democracy into a bureaucracy where |
| period as 'the blackest period' in Indian democracy. | | | | most of the orders are passed by the bureaucracy |
| The people of India have spent six decades in this | | | | and those are orders are signed by the elected |
| democracy and they are proud of the same. They | | | | people just to show that we are still a democracy. |
| had fixed some targets in the Constitution which | | | | The people elected are not people from amongst the |
| they promised to the people of India and on this | | | | people and that is the reason, we cannot say that |
| 26th January when we shall be celebrating the | | | | they represent the people. The political parties |
| anniversary, we shall have to recall those targets and | | | | nominated candidates not on the basis of merits, but |
| then we shall have to examine whether we could | | | | on other considerations and that is the reason the |
| achieve those targets or there are some | | | | people elected to power are not committed to serve |
| shortcomings which we could not achieve. We shall | | | | the people. They have joined this political line |
| have to see whether we could give proper education | | | | considering it a profession, trade, calling and |
| to all the children, proper training to all the youths and | | | | employment and it is on record that they spend |
| proper adjustment at work to all of them so that | | | | money in elections and when they are in power, their |
| they could earn a reasonable living. These are the | | | | first target is to recollect that money and collect |
| basis from which the people shall go ahead. But when | | | | something more for the family and for the next |
| we have an eye on the people of India, we still find | | | | election. We have seen here that in spite of |
| that most of the children are not going to schools, | | | | democracy here in India, we are having family rules |
| they are not getting proper training and that is the | | | | which is foreign to a democracy. We had party |
| reason, they are not properly adjusted at work and | | | | dictatorship and similarly we had been suffering here |
| that is the reason they are not earning proper | | | | under individual autocracy. The people are elected by |
| income. When the income is on lower side, they | | | | the common people, but they are not working for |
| people shall remain poor. When people are poor, they | | | | the common people and that is the reason, here in |
| would not be having proper accommodation, most of | | | | India rich are growing more rich and the poor are |
| the people shall live in huts and mud houses and we | | | | being reduced to more poverty. |
| can see the people lying under open skies. We shall | | | | So the people of India should fix this day of 26th |
| find the people wearing on rags and most of the | | | | January as a day of introspection and they should |
| people starving and spending days without food. We | | | | examine all these points and then they should come |
| still note that very few people in India could get | | | | forward and tell the people as to why we could not |
| proper food and most of them are just filling their | | | | fulfill our promises made in the Constitution. We |
| bellies and are not getting proper food. | | | | should try to correct ourselves and then we should |
| We can note that most of the people are weak and | | | | fix some targets through which we could do |
| frustrated and most of them have been declared as | | | | something for the people of India. First of all we |
| Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward | | | | should take up the cause of education and training |
| Classes i.e.'Dalits' and they are given separate colonies | | | | and then proper adjustment of each youth at work |
| to live in and they are not allowed to have social | | | | from where he should be in a position to carry |
| equality with others. Some minorities are also claiming | | | | proper income with which he should be in s position |
| that they are being discriminated and that is the | | | | to maintain his family well. The remaining problems |
| reason, there had been people who are resorting to | | | | shall be solved by the individual himself. There had |
| terrorism and this on record that these terrorists and | | | | been something wrong with us during all these six |
| their communities have to face riots when killings are | | | | decades. Those mistakes should be written off and |
| equated. There is no unity amongst the people and | | | | those mistakes should not be allowed to continue. |
| they are separately raising their heads as Hindus, | | | | |