Constitution at 75: Time to harmonise it with Gandhi's ideals as expressed in his last will
New Indian ExpressIt is a perennial debate in the Constitutional cosmos whether the Indian Constitution is a revolutionary transformative document or just an evolutionary continuum of the British Raj. However, the grand document failed to include the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi who led the long and unfinished walk to India's salvation holding the torch of ahimsa and swaraj. This fact gives us an insight that only a morally and spiritually enlightened citizenry, India's collective self, can save the republic from the pervasive cancer of corruption and violence. Referring to the success of Bardoli Satyagraha and the Motilal Nehru Committee report in 1928, Gandhiji wrote: "Bardoli has shown the way to organic swaraj while Lucknow has opened the gates of constitutional swaraj. As Bhikhu Parekh pointed out in his Gandhi’s Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination, Gandhiji pleaded for a polity articulated in terms of the complementary and mutually regulating institutions of the state and the Lok Sevak Sangh.
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