Constituent Assembly remembering Adi Shankaracharya
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...