DN&V Correspondent
New Delhi, November 26: The Log Party National General Secretary Dr Smita Pandey said the Constitution Day “Samvidhan Diwas” being celebrated in the country today has provided an opportunity to the beleaguered nation to reflect over successes and failures during the last 70 years. Dr Smita Pandey said the Constitution of India had emerged as an integrated will of India on November 26, 1949, but after 70 years the moot question is whether the country has lived up to the expectation of this holy book.
Dr Smita Pandey said in a statement here on Tuesday the Constitution was in fact a collected will of its makers to respect people’s aspirations but those who ruled the nation all these years have failed the nation. She said the Constitution was a guidebook for clean, honest and upright governance and administration but rampant corruption, dishonesty and mal-administration flowing from top to the grassroots have killed its holy spirit. The corrupt political and administrative class have completely belied the expectations of the members of constituent assembly, Dr Smita Pandey said and added rising anti-constitutional feelings in some sections of the population—be it in dogged persistence of caste based crimes, pervasive gender based violence, threats and bias against minorities and entrenched social and economic inequalities have threatened to derail the promises of the Constitution. Dr Smita Pandey thus said today as we mark 70 years of our Constitution we have every right to ask the legatees of the Constituent Assembly about their utter failure in keeping the promises and lack of honest, transparent accountability.
Calling upon the people to reaffirm themselves to the lofty ideals of the Constitution, Dr Smita Pandey said that Log Party was committed to cleanse the system. She said there is no dearth of resources in the country but complete lack of honesty, transparency and good governance coupled with hackneyed economic policies have pushed the nation to the brink of disaster. Dr Smita Pandey has thus laid stress on total elimination of corruption in the government and restoration of honesty and transparency to improve the delivery system. She said without honest economic vision there cannot be “surgical strike” on ills afflicting the nation.
