Republic Day - Discovery Public School

Republic Day is the day when India marks and celebrates the date on which the Constitution of India came into effect on 26 January 1950. This replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India, thus turning the nation into a republic separate from British Raj.

IMPORTANCE

January 26 was selected as the date because on the same date in 1930, the Indian National Congress had revealed Purna Swaraj, the declaration of India’s independence from colonial rule. The day signifies the right spirit of independent India.

Republic Day is the national festival of the World’s largest democratic country India. It is celebrated across the country with great pomp and show on 26th January every year. On this special day in 1950, we adopted our constitution which is the largest written constitution in the world.

THEME

This year, the Republic Day celebration is themed around ‘Jan-Bhagidari (participation of people)’. As India celebrated 75 years of independence in 2022 as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the celebrations this year shall witness zeal, enthusiasm, patriotic fervour.

FACTS

First Republic Day was celebrated on January 26, 1950, three years after getting independence. The Constitution was adopted by the Indian Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949. It came into effect on January 26, 1950.