Indian community celebrates Republic Day

When addressing the gathering on behalf of the President of India, the India High Commissioner to Botswana, Ketan Shukla said when India attained freedom on August 15, 1947, it did not have an instrument of governance of its own. He said they waited until January 26, 1950 when the Indian people gave themselves a Constitution to secure all citizens’ justice, liberty, gender and economic equity. He said that is when they promised to promote fraternity, dignity of the individual, unity as well as integrity of the nation.

“On that day, we became the largest democracy in the world. The faith and commitment of the people gave life to our Constitution and our founding fathers wisely and carefully steered the new nation past its troubles of being a poor economy with huge imbalances and vast citizenry deprived of even basic necessities,” he said.