Need to study history again? Intellectual Sanjay Raut says changing name of India 'insult' to Ambedkar’s Constitution

Intellectual politician and so called journalist Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut has once again tried to flaunt his half knowledge , saying changing the name of India to Bharat amounts to ‘an insult’ to the Constitution framed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

 

 

He said that the country’s Constitution had incorporated both ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ and nobody had any problems for all these years with the usage of India, “so who has given them the right to make the name change” now. “The problems started a couple of months ago after the National Opposition parties united under the ‘Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance’ (I.N.D.I.A.) bloc that has shaken the BJP deeply,” he contended.

 

 

 

“The BJP is now scared even by the name of the country, INDIA which it has been using for so many of its own schemes. Then what happened suddenly to make this move, and how many more things you will change,” Raut asked sharply.

 

 

First of all, Article 1 of the Constitution says, India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. Little known is the fact that the original draft did not contain any mention of the name ‘Bharat’.

 

The draft constitution was prepared by a committee headed by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar – fondly remembered as the father of the Indian Constitution – and presented to the constituent assembly on November 4, 1948.

 

 

Almost a year later, on September 17, 1949, Ambedkar proposed an amendment including the name ‘Bharat’ in the first sub-clause, besides suggesting minor changes in the second sub-clause dealing with the constituent states.

 

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