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Republic Day 2023: Know why Republic Day is celebrated on 26 January

New Delhi: The country will celebrate its 74th Republic Day on January 26.  It is celebrated to mark the day when the Indian constitution officially came into effect. India became a democratic republic on January 26, 1950 and Republic Day is celebrated to commemorate this.

The Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949. But it came into effect on January 26, 1950. January 26 was also selected as the day to mark Republic Day because it had been on this day that the Indian National Congress (INC) proclaimed the Declaration of Indian Independence in 1929.

India got  independence through the Indian Independence Act 1947. Indian Independence Act 1947 is an act passed by the  Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under this act, The British rulers  partitioned British India into the 2 new independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth.  India obtained its independence on 15 August 1947 as a constitutional monarchy as head of state and Earl Mountbatten as governor-general.

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The country at that time did not have a permanent constitution. The Indian laws  at that time  were based on the modified colonial Government of India Act 1935. On 29 August 1947, a resolution was moved for the appointment of Drafting Committee. The committee was formed under Dr B R Ambedkar as chairman to draft a permanent constitution for the country.

A draft constitution was prepared by the committee and submitted to the Constituent Assembly on 4 November 1947. The  Assembly signed two hand-written copies of the document (one each in Hindi and English) on 24 January 1950. Two days later which was on 26 January 1950, it came into effect throughout the whole nation. On that day, Dr Rajendra Prasad’s became the first president of India. The Constituent Assembly became the Parliament of India under the transitional provisions of the new law.

 

 

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