speech on if I got a dream of Mahatma gandhi
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The Swaraj of my...our...dream recognizes no race or religious destinations. Nor is it to be the monopoly of the lettered persons nor yet of moneyed men. Swaraj is to be for all, including the farmer, but emphatically including the maimed, the blind the starving toiling millions. We should wipe away tears from every eye." We should be messengers of peace for our country and we should work and die for our country.
I shall strive for a constitution, which will release India from all thralldom and patronage, and give her, if need be, the right to sin, I shall work for an India, in which the poorest shall it is their country in whose making they have an effective voice; an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people; an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony. This is the India of my dreams....I shall be satisfied with nothing less. - Mahatma Gandhi
In 1947, after a long period of inner and outer assaults, struggles and innumerable sacrifices, a free India was born. For the first time in the history, people of India finally made their dreams of Swaraj (self –rule) a reality. On the cornerstones of freedom, equality, justice and dignity, the foundation of world’s largest democracy was laid. After years of slavery and humiliation, the excitement about the idea of a free and self-governed India was palpable. The leaders who ushered India into a new dawn of freedom had a vision of a new India with a self-elected government, which was of the people, by the people and for the people.
This vision became the beacon of light for drafting the Constitution of India and our founding fathers ensured that the Constitution of India secures the fundamental rights, social, economic and political justice, freedom of thought, belief, religion, equality of opportunity, status and right to life with dignity to all the citizens. To make sure that every citizen of India as the primary stakeholder of democracy is empowered to participate in the growth story of a new free India, they included the “Directive Principles” in the Constitution like right to life with dignity, right to quality education, right to quality health services, right to food and right to employment etc. They cherished the dream of democracy and envisaged India as a socialist country and a welfare state where these directives became the national conscience and guideposts of our constitution ensuring ‘inclusive growth and development’ for all the citizens.
The Constitution further evolved and directed that it must be the duty and social responsibility of the governments ( central & states’) to apply the Directive Principles in making laws and policies to ensure social and economic justice and inclusion to all like securing right to work, to education, to health and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, provide social security for old age, sickness and disabilities, promote small scale industries, securing all workers a living wage and work opportunities, ensuring a decent standard of life . It further directed that the primary aim of elected governments should be to establish a welfare state and strive to remove inequalities of income, employment, status, living standards and distribution of economic resources for an even and orderly growth and development and for the empowerment of every citizen ensuring that no one is left behind.
These welfare policies and inclusive development strategies were later integrated and laid the foundation of the National Planning Commission and guided various policies, programs and schemes for the first 5-year plan and all successive plans thereafter.
Today, as we celebrate the 68th anniversary of our republic, against this vibrant democratic framework of these fundamental rights, directive principles and successive plans and policies; let us take stock of the journey so far- how far have we come to fulfill this vision of our founder fathers and how sustainable and inclusive our growth has been ? What are the achievements or missed opportunities and where do we stand globally in our quest? Let us find out what distances need to be covered, select the best course that works for all and reject what is not working.
A country of contrasts
“Economic equality is the master key to non-violent independence .Working for economic equality means abolishing the eternal conflict between capital and labor. It means the leveling down of the few rich in whose hands is concentrated the bulk of the nation’s wealth on the other hand , and a leveling up of the semi starved naked millions on the other hand naked millions on the other .
A non – violent system of governments is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists. The contrast between the palaces of New Delhi and the miserable hovels of the poor, laboring class cannot last one day in a free India in which the poor will enjoy the same power as the richest in the land.” - Mahatma Gandhi