Original Manuscript of Constitution of India

During making of the Constititon of India ,Constituent Assembly  was motivated by  Adi Shankaracharya while discussing name of our country India, that is Bharat and deciding age qualifications for a person who wants to be a candidate at an election for Parliamnet. CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA DEBATES (PROCEEDINGS) - VOLUME IX Sunday, the  18 th September  1949 Shri Kamalapati Tripathi  (United Provinces : General) :  * [Mr. President, Sir, I am grateful to you for having given me an opportunity to express my sentiments on an amendment which I consider to be very sacred. Today an amendment regarding the name of the country is before us. I would have been glad if the Drafting Committee had presented this amendment in a different form. If an expression other than "India, that is, Bharat" had been used, I think, Sir, that would have been more in accord with the prestige and the traditions of this country and indeed that would have done greater honour to this C...

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday o n 5 Nov 2021 , unveiled a 12-foot statue of Adi Guru Shankaracharya at Kedarnath in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand  . It is being debated whether PM Modi unveiling Adi Guru Shankaracharya's statue in Kedarnath secular as per the soul and spirit of  Constitution of India   It is imperative to know the truth behind this term "secularism" in India .Meaning and interpretation was debated in the Assembly   on several occasions.  It is relevant to mention the debate dated  27 December 1948  of Constituent Assembly  for the amendment no 1146 standing in the name of  H .V. Kamath. Debates on the  Amendment no 1146 clearly, explicitly and precisely underlines in the meaning of secularism in the India. Amendment No. 1146, as moved and adopted , was as follows:- "That in the affirmation or oath in article 49, for the words 'I, A. B. do solemnly affirm (or swear)', th...