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Congress person Jairam Ramesh connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) recalled that 76 years agone today, 264 members of the Constituent Assembly formally affixed their signatures to the Constitution of India, which is simply a charter for profound socio-economic transformation.
In a station connected X, the Congress wide caput besides recalled that the members sat unneurotic for a radical photograph, which "is 1 for the ages".
"76 years agone today, 264 members of the Constituent Assembly formally affixed their signatures to the Constitution of India that they had earlier adopted connected November 26, 1949. They signed 3 copies — 2 of which were handwritten successful English and Hindi and carried 22 illustrations by artists from Shantiniketan, led by nary different than Nandalal Bose himself," Mr. Ramesh said.
“The beauteous calligraphy successful English was by Prem Behari Narayan Raizada, and the 1 successful Hindi was by Vasant K Vaidya,” helium noted.
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"The archetypal leafage of these handwritten Constitutions had the nationalist awesome that was designed by Dinanath Bhargava, who had spent a fewer months visiting the Kolkata Zoo astatine Nandalal Bose's insistence truthful arsenic to guarantee that the lions successful the emblem looked precisely similar the existent lions," the Congress person said.
"Quite isolated from the information that it is simply a charter for profound socio-economic transformation, the Lalit Kala Akademi acceptable up successful August 1954 has described the illustrated Constitution arsenic 'a seminal creation treatise' that navigates India's multi-layered past and celebrates the threads of unity successful diversity," Mr. Ramesh said.
"That precise day, the members sat unneurotic for a radical photograph. It is 1 for the ages," helium added.
