The Embassy of India in Lebanon organized a high-level Seminar on November 26, 2021 on the occasion of Constitution Day of India. Judge Jean Fahed, Former President of the Supreme Court & Former President of the Supreme Judicial Council of Lebanon and eminent lawyer Rima Fawaz Husseini were the main speakers along with Ambassador Dr Suhel Ajaz Khan.

A documentary on the Constitution of India was screened and Second Secretary Mr. Sandeep Grover read the preamble of the Constitution.

Ambassador Dr Khan, in his speech paid homage to Dr B R Amedkar, the Father of the Indian Constitution and remembered all those who contributed to drafting and making of the Indian Constitution. He focused on the working of the Indian Parliament and the election process in India in context of the constitutional provision. He also spoke about judicial independence, independence of the Election Commission of India, robustness of the electoral process in India, separation of powers between various bodies of the state , cooperative federalism and rights and duties of the citizens.

Judge Jean Fahed spoke about the Judicial independence in India and the Constitutional provisions which guarantee the Judicial independence. He also spoke about the  role of Indian Judiciary as the protectors of citizens’ rights, guardian of the Constitution and an instrument of positive interventions for the socio- economic betterment of lives of common man. Lawyer Husseini spoke about the Contribution  of Dr Ambedkar in drafting the Constitution. She also highlighted the nation building process in the early years of Freedom of India where more than 500 different princely states were merged to make India a unified and strong entity. She spoke about the importance of free and fair elections in a democracy and complimented the Electoral body in India to carry out the largest electoral excerices in India with full transparency and fairness every time.

Judge Meddy Moutran, Judge of the Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) of Lebanon and Judge Maya Karam also graced the occasion. The event was also attended by prominent members of the Beirut Bar Association, media personnel, members of the Lebanese civil society and Indian Diaspora.

November 26 is celebrated every year as Constitution Day in India, as on this day in 1949, the Constitution of Free India was adopted.

Indian Constitution is the longest written Constitution in the World. The Preamble of the Indian Constitution, which carries the gist of the Constitution reads as under:

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens :

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the UNITY and INTEGRITY of the Nation

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Source: National News Agency