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Former Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu connected Sunday (January 04, 2026) termed the Constitution of India “a dynamic postulation of ideas alternatively than a rigid oregon unchangeable document”, and emphasised that its framers provided aboriginal generations with the powerfulness to amend it successful effect to changing needs.
Speaking astatine the inaugural league connected the 4th time of the 36th Vijayawada Book Festival, wherever helium released the Telugu translation of Ram Madhav’s publication “Partitioned Freedom and Our Constitution – Our Pride”, he said that existent religion successful the Constitution lies successful believing successful each its principles and being consenting to signifier them successful mundane life.
Drawing from his idiosyncratic acquisition during the exigency period, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu underlined the value of ideology and law values. He noted that Ram Madhav’s writings efficaciously bespeak the tone of the Constitution and its underlying principles. Expressing pridefulness that Mr. Madhav is simply a Telugu author, who has earned nationalist recognition, helium observed that the author’s English works person received wide acceptance crossed the country.
Mr. Venkaiah Naidu stressed that the younker of the state indispensable not lone beryllium alert of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution but indispensable besides recognise and sincerely execute the duties enshrined successful it and described the fulfilment of duties arsenic existent patriotism. He said the books are written successful a connection accessible to young readers and bring to airy respective humanities facts that were antecedently suppressed owed to ideological bias.
Suppressing humanities truths for immoderate reason, helium said, is inappropriate. Despite differences successful religion and tradition, helium asserted that nationalist individuality indispensable stay paramount and lamented that galore patriots were forced to place arsenic either Indian oregon Pakistani pursuing Independence and Partition.
Calling for much penning rooted successful information alternatively than sensationalism, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu urged socially liable citizens to beforehand speechmaking habits by gifting books, noting that books person some contiguous and lasting power connected society.
Author Ram Madhav said that changes successful opinions and beliefs among individuals and societies are earthy implicit time. He recalled that portion the Partition was wide opposed successful 1905, it was softly accepted successful 1947, and said that its consequences proceed to impact the federation adjacent today. He described it arsenic tragic that Independence and Partition occurred connected the aforesaid time and said his writings were undertaken astatine the petition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assistance 21st period younker recognize these humanities developments.
Mr. Madhav besides highlighted the relation of B.N. Rau successful drafting the Constitution and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s pivotal publication successful finalising it, noting Ambedkar’s presumption that democratically elected governments person the close to amend the Constitution erstwhile necessary. Other speakers astatine the lawsuit praised the books for intelligibly explaining law evolution, state question history, and ideological perspectives successful a concise and accessible manner.
