COMMEMORATIVE
POSTAGE STAMP ON GOLDEN JUBILEE OF PARLIAMENT OF INDIA TO BE RELEASED
ON 13TH MAY
The
Department of Posts is issuing a commemorative postage stamp to
mark the Golden Jubilee of Parliament of India at a function on
13th May, 2002. The stamp will be released by Hon’ble
Vice-President of India Shri Krishan Kant.
The stamp design shows the decorative inner view
of the Central Hall of the Parliament, which has one of the most
magnificent domes of the world. The Central Hall, which saw the
transfer of power on 15th August, 1947, the long deliberations
which led to the framing of the Constitution and the first session
after each general elections to the Lok Sabha for the last 50
years, a unique place of historic importance. The stamp design
also incorporates one of the inscriptions from another dome inside
the Parliament, that act as beacons to guide parliamentary discussions
and debate.
May 13, 1952 marked the beginning of a new phase
in the history of Independent India. It was on this day that India’s
Parliament met for the first time after the General Elections.
The first meeting of the constituent Assembly on 9th
December, 1946, was a historic event as the Assembly was a fully
sovereign body, independent of external authority. After the attainment
of freedom on 15th August, 1947 and the coming into
force of the Constitution of India on 26th January,
1950, the character of the Constituent Assembly (Legislative)
underwent a change. It became the provisional Parliament of the
country. The provisional Parliament represented a crucial phase
in the history of Indian Legislature, marking the transition from
a colonial institution to a sovereign parliament.
The next phase in the history of the Indian democracy
started when the first Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha met for the first
time in the respective chambers to take up the agenda of the day.
The democratic experiment which India launched on 13th
May, 1952, has consolidated the country’s democratic credentials
as the largest working democracy in the world.
