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Republic Day is a national holiday in India commemorating the adoption of the Constitution of India, and the country's transition to a republic which came into effect on 26 January 1950. The constitution replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India, thus turning the nation from a dominion into a republic ...
There are only three national holidays declared by Government of India: Republic Day (26 January), Independence Day (15 August), and Gandhi Jayanti (2 October). Apart from this, certain holidays which are celebrated nationally are declared centrally by the Union Government.
The Constitution of India came into force, and India declared itself a Republic on 26 January 1950, a day thereafter celebrated annually as Republic Day in India. The Constitution had been drafted by the Constituent Assembly headed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar which was set up when India gained its independence from the British in 1947.
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26 January 1950: The Constitution came into force. (The process took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days [ 24 ] —at a total expenditure of ₹6.4 million to finish.) [ 32 ] G. V. Mavlankar was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament) after India turned into a republic.
Jawaharlal Nehru demands "complete independence from Great Britain" in 1929. The flag adopted by Congress in 1931. The Declaration of Purna Swaraj was a resolution which was passed in 1930 because of the dissatisfaction among the Indian masses regarding the British offer of Dominion status to India.
Some young people who noticed the insult done to the Telugu language and the Telugu speaker in that assembly, came together and founded the "Andhrajana Sangam" (Association of Andhra People) with the ambition to give a proper place to the Andhra language and culture in the city. That was the beginning of the Andhra movement in Nizam's state.
Subba Rao composed the National Pledge in Telugu in 1962 while he was serving as the District Treasury Officer of Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh.He was a close associate of the nationalist leader Tenneti Viswanadham, who forwarded the pledge to the then Education Minister of Andhra Pradesh, P.V.G. Raju who was also known as the Raja Garu of Vizianagaram. [1]