India’s Constitution and democracy is paramount for the country, President Droupadi Murmu said on Thursday, in her address to the nation on Independence Day’s eve.
“After regaining our freedom, we marched on the path of such democracy where every adult received the right to exercise franchise. In other words, we, the people of India, gave ourselves the right to shape our own destiny…Despite the challenges, the people of India successfully adopted democracy…For us, our Constitution and our democracy is above everything else,” the President said in her address.
The citizens, while commemorating the Independence, should also not forget the horrors inflicted during the country’s partition in 1947, she added.
“As we look back on the past, we must never forget the pain inflicted by the partition of the country. Today, we observed Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. Terrible violence was witnessed due to partition, and lakhs of people were forced to relocate. Today, we pay tributes to those who were victims of the mistakes of history,” President Murmu further said.
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