When citizens across India began holding up the Constitution of India, it marks the reawakening of our democratic consciousness.
When Rahul Gandhi launched the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur and began publicly displaying the Constitution at nearly all his events, the Godi media and the BJP mocked him.
They could not grasp the symbolic potency of that act.
Now, they realise it has struck a deep chord among India’s youth, a generation that has grown up at a time when constitutional values were being quietly eroded.
By holding up that small red book, Rahul Gandhi transformed a legal document into a moral symbol of truth and resistance.
It has inspired the youth to redefine patriotism, not as allegiance to a party or personality, but to the Constitution and the democratic idea of India. The youth are realising that it is the Constitution that binds 1.4 billion Indians together.
In retrospect, Rahul Gandhi’s invocation of the red book will be remembered as a turning point in Indian political culture.
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