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Each year, as India celebrates Constitution Day on 26 November, we reaffirm our collective commitment to liberty, dignity, and justice.
Each year, as India celebrates Constitution Day on 26 November, we reaffirm our collective commitment to liberty, dignity, and justice.
On 26 November, India celebrated Constitution Day, a day to commemorate the adoption of its foundational legal document in 1949.
Eastern Railway observed Constitution Day throughout its jurisdiction today. Officers and staff at Eastern Railway headquarters, led by Sheelendra Pratap Singh, Additional General Manager, Eastern Railway read the Preamble to the Constitution on this occasion.
He added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by initiating the observance of Constitution Day, has helped enhance public awareness and appreciation of democratic values.
The event was presided over by Smita Vats Sharma, Director General, PIB, along with Dr. Pragya Paliwal Gaur, Vice Chancellor, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC).
“A conspiracy has been hatched through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to strike off millions of voters in Uttar Pradesh,” he claimed, adding that several million voters in West Bengal would also be denied their voting rights.
The Lieutenant Governor was speaking at the Constitution Day Celebrations here.
On Constitution Day, senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge reaffirmed their commitment to protecting the Indian Constitution and its core values of justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, secularism, and socialism.
Celebrations were held at the Samvidhan Sadan (Old Parliament House) on Wednesday to mark the Constitution Day 2025. President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President CP Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari and Kiren Rijiju, and several other leaders graced the occasion.
It is a coincidence that the birth anniversary of the former Speaker of Lok Sabha Rabi Ray, an eminent parliamentarian, veteran socialist leader and a valiant freedom fighter falls on 26 November which is the Constitution Day.
