India is celebrating Constitution Day but there’s a long way to go before the vision of its architect Bhimrao Ambedkar can be realised

• India is observing Constitution Day on November 26 to commemorate the adoption of the constitution of India — which came into effect on January 26, 1950.
  
• Four years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked the birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar as the Constitution Day of India.
  
• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy, Ambedkar had famously warned.

India is observing Constitution Day on November 26 to commemorate the adoption of the constitution of India — which came into effect on January 26, 1950. Seventy years later, the very fabric of the world’s largest democracy is being tested on the 3 pillars ⁠— legislature, executive, and judiciary ⁠— that are supposed to uphold the constitution.

Four years back, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Ambedkar memorial in Mumbai on November 19, 2015 — marking November 26, which is the birth anniversary of the chief architect of the Indian constitution, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar — as the Constitution Day of India.

Ambedkar fought relentlessly to restore the dignity and rights of India’s oppressed classes. Ambedkar said that "political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life."