SSC-CGL (TIER-III) - Indian Constitution - a living document
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INDIAN CONSTITUTION - A LIVING DOCUMENT
Key Points:
Introduction
Nature of Indian constitution
Recent issues
Way ahead
THE ESSAY BEGINS.
"If you make any Constitution rigid and permanent, you stop the nation's growth, the growth of a living, vital, organic people"
The words of Jawaharlal Nehru in the Constituent Assembly sound apt today as much as it did then.
26th November 2016 marked the 67th constitutional day of India, and by this time our Constitution has gone through 101 amendments. Though the amendment procedure wasn't made much easy, it wasn't rigid also to ensure its workability. A rigid Constitution would make itself proof to the dynamics of the society, thereby making it redundant. The fact that democracy in our country has continued uninterrupted, even after the dark period of emergency, indicates the strong foundation it was given by its makers. Though the country was made a multi-party democracy with a federal structure, stability was ensured. The country's political transition from single-party politics to coalition politics and economic transition from a state-dominated economy to a majorly free-market economy also happened without constitutional amendments, thus underlining the elaborate yet flexible nature of the Indian Constitution.
The free, fair, peaceful, and inclusive conduct of Indian elections has elicited much applause from democracies around the world, and experts around the world come to study Indian elections. The conflicts that arise occasionally between various pillars of government do not imply failure of the Constitution, but rather its success in promoting free debates.
Providing a strong base that led the country from the impoverished 1950s to the flourishing 21st century, the Constitution has outdone its own makers' expectation.
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