Original Manuscript of Constitution of India

  CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA DEBATES (PROCEEDINGS)- Tuesday, the 22nd July 1947   Sir S. Radhakrishnan " the Bhagwa represents the spirit of renunciation it is said: (Sarve tyage rajadharmesu drsta). All forms of renunciation are to be embodied in Raja Dharma. Philosophers must be Kings. Our leaders must be disinterested. They must be dedicated spirits.' They must be people who are imbued with the spirit of renunciation which that saffron, colour has transmitted to us from the beginning of our history. That stands for the fact that the World belongs not to the wealthy, not to the prosperous but to the meek and the humble, the dedicated and the detached.   Here we are Putting in the very centre the white, the white of the Sun's rays. The white means the path of light. There is darkness even at noon as some People have urged, but it is necessary for us to dissipate these clouds of darkness and control our conduct by the ideal light, the light of truth...

Dr Rajendra Prasad , Chairman of  Constituent Assembly, also headed Ad hoc Committee on National Flag.  Sarojini Naidu ,  C. Rajagopalachari ,  K. M. Munshi  , B. R. Ambedkar  and  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad  were the  members of this committee . On 22July 1947 the resolution on National Flag was adopted. On ,Thursday, the 14th August 1947, t wo National Flags one in silk and  another in cotton khadi was presented before Constituent Assembly. The Fifth Session of the Constituent Assembly of India commenced In the Constitution Hall, New Delhi, at Eleven P. M., Session began  with  SINGING OF VANDE MATARAM . Chairman of the Constituent Assembly announced that   the first item on the Agenda was the singing of the first verse of VANDE MATARAM. Assembly would listen to it all standing.  Shrimati Sucheta Kripalani   sang the first verse of the VANDE MATARAM sang.   Mrs. Hansa Mehta while...