The Constitution of India

There's a group that I had come across, again, pre-COVID.

This whole thing about the Constitution of India, which has now become the latest fad.

This was back in 2016.

And they realized that the Constitution of India is a difficult document to read.

It's very unwieldy.

And you don't understand the provisions.

And what they did was they selected a date, 26th of November, which is Constitution Day.

And they just parked themselves in front of bus stops and bus stands and schools.

What went wrong?

This is a country which is functioning as if there was no Constitution of India at all.

The government simply ignores the Constitution of India.

One of the reasons for the downslide of Indian democracy is the collapse of the judiciary.

In the corridors of the Supreme Court, you hear people say that, "Oh, you know, uh, you can get an order from this judge by giving this amount of money." The judiciary makes no apologies for being dynastic.

Mm.

And then you realize, "Okay, this is what I've been looking for.

It is the Constitution of India that I've been looking for."

So, I'm glad because when Abhijit Deepke came, he came holding a book of Dr.

B. R. Ambedkar, who was architect of the Constitution of India.

Ambedkar and the founding fathers of Indian independence was actually looking to see just this, you know, there will be a strong governance.

There needs to be check and balance of the people.

I will say a few more things that will be thrown at me.

I will say that after a while there should be such a law in the Constitution of India that no one can open a political party.

Now the situation is such that even if there are 5 people with me or 5 people not with me, I can still open a dal.

Only if I do something in return.

But I am saying that the way the bank is so proud of the country's late Meyadi Mangal.

And Bivajan is saying, That is a big problem.

They do not have any idea what is the reality of India, what is the constitution of India, what is the state we are in, or what is the reality of being religiously independent.

They do not have any idea about all this, because I have seen many such political leaders as if they are some kind of a thing to read.

It exists in server farms along the Rhine.

in fibre optic cables running beneath the Atlantic, and in a Supreme Court judgment in New Delhi that told one of the largest companies in human history to obey the Indian constitution or leave.

Digital fortresses are invisible, which is why most people haven't noticed that they're being built.

It is also the rampart that matters most because the nation that does not control its own data infrastructure does not control its own nation.

And he then told Meta's lawyers in open court, quote, if you can't follow our constitution, leave India.

End quote.

The legal foundation for all this is, or was, Putuswami, the 2017 Supreme Court judgment that established the right to privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, not a statutory right, which can be amended by Parliament, a fundamental right.

which can only be removed by constitutional amendment, a process requiring two-thirds parliamentary supermajority and ratification by half of India's state legislatures.

Yeah.

But it's fundamentally a structural mechanism leveraging what is known as a concurrent list in the Indian Constitution.

Okay.

How does that work?