Legal Notice to govt of India :Artistic work in the original handwritten Constitution of India duly signed by the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly be incorporated in publication of all Bare Acts of the Constitution of India.

12 February 2018

To

Sh Suresh Chandra

Law Secretary

Department of Legal Affairs

Government of India

A Block C.G.O COMPLEX

LODI ROAD

NEW DELHI-110003

sureshchandra@nic.in

                            Legal Notice:

 Subject:Photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly be incorporated in publication of all  Bare Acts of the Constitution of India.

                                                                                               

This citizen of India, Advocate Surya Pratap Singh Rajawat ,S/o Sh J S Rajawat R/o Sunari House A35 Jai Ambey Nagar,Tonk Road,Jaipur 302018 Rajasthan, had the opportunity of visiting the original Constitution of India ,on 14 July 2017, kept in nitrogen gas .This citizen also bought the replica of the handwritten original constitution of India from the sales counter of Parliament.This citizen of India serves this legal notice upon you on the following facts:

1.     That at the suggestion of Prof. K. T. Shah the question of calligraphy and artistic decoration and printing of the original authoritative copy of the Constitution of India was taken up.

2.     That the matter to be calligraphed consisted of about 300 pages of 6½" x 9½", each page containing about 40 lines. It was also proposed to use parchment paper of the size of 14" x18" and a margin of 2½" was to be left at the top and the sides for illumination work and of l½" at the bottom. The rest of the space in the middle of the sheet was to be covered by the calligraphist. The cover was to bear the seal and emblem of the Union with a description in general and concise terms of the contents of the manuscript.  At the suggestion of Krishna Kriplani the President wrote to Nandalal Bose of the Shantiniketan asking if he would undertake the work of supervision and decoration and illumination of the calligraphed authenticated copy of the Constitution. Nandalal Bose agreed to make  designs covering the whole period of Indian civilization. A decision was also taken to Photoprint the calligraphed Constitution bearing signatures of Members at the end.

3.     That he Vedic period , on page Number   ,  is represented by a scene of gurukula .Sri Aurobindo writes on Veda "At the root of all that we Hindus have done, thought and said through these many thousands of years, behind all we are and seek to be, there lies concealed, the fount of our philosophies, the bedrock of our religions, the kernel of our thought, the explanation of our ethics and society, the summary of our civilisation, the rivet of our nationality, a small body of speech, Veda. From this one seed developing into many forms the multitudinous and magnificent birth called Hinduism draws its inexhaustible existence. Buddhism too with its offshoot, Christianity, flows from the same original source. It has left its stamp on Persia, through Persia on Judaism, through Judaism, Christianity and Sufism on Islam, and through Buddha on Confucianism, and through Christ and mediaeval mysticism, Greek and German philosophy and Sanskrit learning on the thought and civilisation of Europe. There is no part of the world's spirituality, of the world's religion, of the world's thought which would be what it is today, if the Veda had not existed. Of no other body of speech in  the world can this be said."Archives  and Research April 1977 Volume I; No 1

4.     That  epic period by a visual of Lord Sri Rama,  Mata Sita and Lakshmana returning homeward on page Number   .The  philosophical base of India in found in the Ramayan, Sri Aurobindo writes "The distinction that India draws is not between altruism and egoism but between disinterestedness and desire. The altruist is profoundly conscious of himself and he is really ministering to himself even in his altruism; hence the hot & sickly odour of sentimentalism and the taint of the Pharisee which clings about European altruism. With the perfect Hindu the feeling of self has been merged in the sense of the  universe; he does his duty equally whether it happens to promote the interests of others or his own; if his action seems oftener altruistic than egoistic it is because our duty oftener coincides with the interests of others than with our own. Rama’s duty as a son calls him to sacrifice himself, to leave the empire of the world and become a beggar& a hermit; he does it cheerfully and unflinchingly: but when Sita is taken from him, it is his duty as a husband to rescue her from her ravisher and as a Kshatriya to put Ravana to death if he persists in wrongdoing. This duty also he pursues with the same unflinching energy as the first. He does not shrink from the path of the right because it coincides with the path of self-interest. "01CWSA 236

5.     That the epic period by a visual of another of Lord Yogeshwar Krishna propounding the Gita to Arjuna  on the battlefield on page Number. Sri Aurobindo writes on  the  Mahabharata "The Pandavas also go without a word into exile & poverty, because honour demands it of them; but their ordeal over, they will not, though ready to drive compromise to its utmost verge, consent to succumb utterly to Duryodhana, for it is their duty as Kshatriyas to protect the world from the reign of injustice, even though it is at their own expense that injustice seeks to reign. The Christian & Buddhistic doctrine of turning the other cheek to the smiter , is as dangerous as it is impracticable. The continual European see-saw between Christ on the one side and the flesh  &the devil on the other with the longer trend towards the latter comes straight from a radically false moral distinction & the lip profession of an ideal which mankind has never been either able or willing to carry into practice. The disinterested & desireless pursuit of duty is a gospel worthy of the strongest manhood; that of the cheek turned to the smiter is a gospel for cowards & weaklings. Babes & sucklings may practise it because they must, but with others it is a hypocrisy."

6.     That there are depictions of the lives of the  Lord Buddha on page Number  in the words of Sri Aurobindo ''Even the most extreme philosophies and religions, Buddhism and Illusionism, which held life to bean impermanence or ignorance that must be transcended and cast away, yet did not lose sight of the truth that man must develop himself under the conditions of this present ignorance or impermanence before he can attain to knowledge and to that Permanent which is the denial of temporal being. Buddhismwas not solely a cloudy sublimation of Nirvana, nothingness, extinction and the tyrannous futility of Karma; it gave us a great and powerful discipline for the life of man on earth. The enormous positive effects it had on society and ethics and the creative impulse it imparted to art and thought and in a lessdegree to literature, are a sufficient proof of the strong vitality of its method. If this positive turn was present in the most extreme philosophy of denial, it was still more largely present in the totality of Indian culture.''20 CWSA 239

7.     That we have depiction of Bhagwan Mahavira,followed by scenes from the courts of Ashoka on page Number Sr Aurobindo writes on Ashoka "Why is Asoka to be called pale in comparison with Charlemagne or, let us say, with Constantine? Is it because he only mentions his sanguinary conquest of Kalinga in order to speak of his remorse and the turning of his spirit, a sentiment which Charlemagne massacring the Saxons in order to make good Christians of them could not in the least have understood, nor any more perhaps the Pope who anointed him? Constantine gave the victory to the Christian religion, but there is nothing Christian in his personality; Asoka not only enthroned Buddhism, but strove though not with a perfect success to follow the path laid down by Buddha. And the Indian mind would account him not only a nobler will, but a greater and more attracting personality than Constantine or Charlemagne. It is interested in Chanakya, but much more interested in Chaitanya...."20CWSA252 "...The Indian mind believes that the will and personality are not diminished but heightened by moving from the rajasic or more coloured egoistic to the sattwic and more luminous level of our being. Are not after all calm, self-mastery, a high balance signs of a greater and more real force of character than mere self-assertion of strength of will or the furious driving of the passions? Their possession does not mean that one must act with an inferior or less puissant, but only with a more right, collected and balanced will. And it is a mistake to think that asceticism itself rightly understood and practised implies an effacement of will; it brings much rather its greater concentration. That is the Indian view and experience and the meaning of the old legends in the epics..."20CWSA253

8.     That we can see Vikramaditya on page Number and also the scene of tapsya of Bhagirath for the descent of Ganga on page Number . Orissan sculpture on page Number and image of Nataraj on page Number reflect the art aspect ; scene of  ancient university (Nalanda) on page Number along with other great figures of our history who are represented are Akbar on page Number    , writes Sri Aurobindo "The real problem introduced by the Mussulman conquest was not that of subjection to a foreign rule and the ability torecover freedom, but the struggle between two civilisations, one ancient and indigenous, the other mediaeval and brought in from outside. That which rendered the problem insoluble was  the attachment of each to a powerful religion, the one militant and aggressive, the other spiritually tolerant indeed and flexible, but obstinately faithful in its discipline to its own principle and standing on the defence behind a barrier of social forms. There were two conceivable solutions, the rise of a greater spiritual principle and formation which could reconcile the two or a political patriotism surmounting the religious struggle and uniting the two communities. The first was impossible in that age. Akbar attempted it on theMussulman side, but his religion was an intellectual and political rather than a spiritual creation and had never any chance of assent from the strongly religious mind of the two communities.... Akbar attempted also to create a common political patriotism, but this endeavour too was foredoomed to  failure."20CWSA,442

9.     That Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is  on page Number described by Sri Aurobindo as Divine Worker.

10.            That Guru Gobind Singh  JI  on page Number, Sri Aurobindo writes "The Sikh Khalsa on the other hand was an astonishingly original and novel creation and its face was turned not to the past but the future. Apart and singular in its theocratic head and democratic soul and structure, its profound spiritual beginning, its first attempt to combine the deepest elements of Islam and Vedanta, it was a premature drive towards an entrance into the third or spiritual stage of human society, but it could not create between the spirit and the external life the transmitting medium of a rich creative thought and culture. And thus hampered and deficient it began and ended within narrow local limits, achieved intensity but no power of expansion. The conditions were not then in existence that could have made possible a successful endeavour "20CWSA,444

                 That we have  Tipu Sultan and Rani Lakshmibai on page Number depicting the    struggle against the British Raj . Reminds of (Khoob Ladi Mardani  Woh To Jhansi Wali Rani Thi..)

11.            That the freedom movement is delineated by line drawings of Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi march on page Number  .Gandhiji's  weapons of non cooperation, swadehi and  boycott were inspired by doctrine of passive resistance as enunciated by Sri Aurobindo  in 1907.Sri Aurobindo writes "The first principle of passive resistance, therefore, which the new school have placed in the forefront of their programme, is to make administration under present conditions impossible by an organised refusal to do anything which shall help either British commerce in the exploitation of the country or British officialdom in the administration of it, – unless and until the conditions are changed in the manner and to the extent demanded by the people.. This attitude is summed up in the one word, Boycott" (06-07CWSA 281 )"The second canon of the doctrine of passive resistance has therefore been accepted by politicians of both schools – that to resist an unjust coercive order or interference Iit s not only justifiable but, under given circumstances, a duty".( 06-07 CWSA 291)"We must therefore admit a third canon of the doctrine of passive resistance, that social boycott is legitimate and indispensable as against persons guilty of treason to the nation".(06-07 CWSA 292)"Our defensive resistance must therefore be mainly passive in the beginning, although with a perpetual readiness to supplement it  with active resistance whenever compelled".( 06-07 CWSA301).

12.            That  freedom movement is delineated by line drawings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and other patriots trying to liberate "Bharat Mata" from outside India on page Number

13.            That The Constitution of India was adopted on November26, 1949. There are 282 signatures in Hindi copy and 278 in English copy. The provisions relating to citizenship, elections, provisional Parliament, temporary and transitional positions were given immediate effect on  Nov26 ,1949. While the rest of the Constitution came into force on the Jan26 , 1950. And this date is referred to in the Constitution as the "date of its Commencement". Constitution of India had 395 Articles in 22 Parts and 8 Schedules at the time of commencement.There are 282 signatures in Hindi copy and 278 in English copy.

14.            That the Constituent Assembly  continued as  the provisional parliament of India from  January 26 1950 till the formation of new Parliament after the first general elections in 1951-52.

15.              That by  Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala in which Basic Structure Doctrine was laid down ,every citizen has right to have access to copy of  full  Constitution depicting the photolithography covering the civilization of India which forms the soul of the civilization of Great India

16.            That Article 1 of the Constitution of India states

(1) India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States

photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent clearly  ,explicitly and integrally explains what is Bharat- integration, assimilation and synthesis

 17.Supreme Court of India has, in the Kesavananda case (1973), recognised that the preamble may be used to interpret ambiguous areas of the constitution where differing interpretations present themselves. In the 1995 case of Union Government Vs LIC of India also, the Supreme Court has once again held that Preamble is the integral part of the Constitution.On the same lines it is not irrational and unconstitutional to use the photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent  to interpret ambiguous areas of the constitution where differing interpretations present themselves

18 That the word Secularism was inserted without any clear and concise definition ,wrecking havoc in the form of conflicting definitions . That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly  clearly  ,explicitly and integrally explains what is  Secularism in India as envisaged by the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly .This clearly explains that Secularism of India is different from the western Secularism. it is very disappointing that in the name of secularism  the civilizations of India has been often not taught and discussed in schools and college . This citizen of India feels that photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honorable members of the Constituent Assembly  provides guidelines to the school curriculum making one chapter mandatory on various topics of photolithography.

19 Article 51A. states Fundamental duties.-

It shall be the duty of every citizen of India-

(a) to abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the national Flag and the National Anthem;

(b) to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom;

(c) to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India;

(d) to defend the country and render national service when called upon to do so;

(e) to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women;

(f) to value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture;

(g) to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wild life, and to have compassion for living creatures;

(h) to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform;

(i) to safeguard public property and to abjure violence;

(j) to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavor and achievement.

This citizen of India feels, in principle, that photolithography clearly  ,explicitly and integrally incorporates all the Fundamental Duties and shall go a long way in inculcating the values of   citizenship.

20. That the Photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent Assembly  will go a long way in upholding the Constitutional Morality as discussed by Dr Ambedkar 

21. That  nationalism in form of Spiritual nationalism was unanimously accepted by the honourable members of constituent Assembly  in form of Bharat Mata  as found in the photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent Assembly  .Hence it can be said that had this been open secret today India would not hve seen the anti- national slogans  in education institutions like JNU New Delhi etc.Member of  Parliament would not have said "where is Bharata Mata written in the Constitution of India"

22. That the photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent Assembly  clearly  ,explicitly and integrally explains the nature of  civilisation of India that is integration, assimilation and synthesis

23. That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent Assembly  clearly  ,explicitly and integrally highlights the basic structure of the civilisation of India and the history of India.It forms a litmus test to prevent the politicisation of education.

24 That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent represents the microcosm of the civilisation of India where it clearly lays down the principles of SWARAJ and SURAAJ .The ideals of the freedom struggle from Britishraj.

25 That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent underlines the integral idea of Violence and Non Violence to  uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India

26 That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent underlines the change with continuity from Vedic period to 20th Century

27 That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent reiterates the aspirations of Swami Vivekanand and Sri Aurobindo that India to lead the world as Vishwguru

28 That photolithography work in the original handwritten Constitution of India  duly signed by the honourable members of the Constituent underlines  profound vitality, strong mental faculties  and spirituality at the centre-reminding the glorious past and  bright promised  future of India.

29.Hence the following prayer:

a)     Ministry of Law must  issue directions that all the Bare Acts of the Constitution of India must not  be allowed to be  published without the photographs/designs  as found in the Original handwritten Constitution of India duly signed by the Honorable members of the Constituent Assembly ,all Parts of original handwritten Constitution of India beginning with the designs/photo highlighting the civilization of India  .

Therefore , by this legal notice you are being informed to pass necessary directions within 15 days, failing which this citizen shall have  no option but to approach the Honorable Supreme Court of India under Article 32 of the Constitution of India .

Kindly be informed

CWSA: Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo

                                                                                           Surya Pratap Singh Rajawat

                                                                                                Advocate,