'Constitution A Way Of Life That Has To Be Lived Up to': CJI Sanjiv Khanna Speaks On Constitution Day

While addressing the SCBA meet, the CJI said that his tenure as a member of the Bar is certainly longer than his tenure as a judge. 

While speaking at the Constitution Day celebration of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), the chief justice said since independence, India has had a transformative journey

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The Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna on Tuesday said that Constitution is a way of life that has to be lived upto and India has emerged as a self assured and democratic nation because of the Constitution.

While speaking at the Constitution Day celebration of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), the chief justice said since independence, India has had a transformative journey from a nation which under the aftermaths of the horror of partition, widespread illiteracy, poverty and hunger, lack of a robust democratic system of checks and balances resulting in self doubt has emerged today as a mature and a vibrant democracy, a self-assured nation, a geopolitical leader.

But at the back of it is the Constitution of India which has helped this transformation, CJI Khanna said.

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While addressing the SCBA meet, CJI Sanjiv Khanna said that his tenure as a member of the Bar is certainly longer than his tenure as a judge. 

"Judges come from the bar and go back to the bar. We belong to the bar, the better the bar, the better the judges..." CJI said while emphasising that he has seen the problems faced by the members of the Bar. He further said that the Bar is as much a part of judiciary as the judges. 

The Constitution Day also known as Samvidhan Divas, is celebrated in India on November 26 every year. The day commemorates the adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1949.

In 2015, India officially declared the annual observance to honour the values of justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity enshrined in the Constitution.