The Constituent Assembly which is now having its plenary session and will soon break into committees and sections, has given a comprehensive definition of its ideal and objective, covering all communities. It says that in our coming Republic there shall be “guaranteed and secured to all people of India justice social, economic and political, equality of status, of opportunity and before the law, freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation, association and action, subject to law and public morality”. Further it says “And wherein adequate safeguards shall be provided for minorities, backward and tribal areas and depressed and other backward classes”. This ought to be really reassuring to all communities and sections in the country who for one reason or another have been suffering from some disabilities owing to the development of a sense of provincial patriotism ever since provincial autonomy came into force.
