156 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Chapter-5
Aims and Objects of the Party
- The Preamble to the Constitution of India says— WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens :
JUSTICE, Social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship.
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among all; Fraternity assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of the Nation :
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY THIS twenty-sixth day of November 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
To realise the aims and objects set out in the Preamble namely JUSTICE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY and FRATERNITY WOULD constitute the aims and objects of the REPUBLICAN PARTY.
These being the aims and objects of the Party, the attitude of the Party in public affairs will be governed by the following principles :—
(1) It will treat all Indians not only as being equal before the law but as being entitled to equality and will accordingly foster equality where it does not exist and uphold it where it is denied.
(2) It will regard every Indian as an end in Himself with a right to his own development in his own way and the State as only a means to that end.
(3) It will sustain the right of every Indian to freedom, religious, economic and political-subject to such limitations as may arise out of the need for the protection of the interest of other Indians or the State.
(4) It will uphold the right of every Indian to equality of opportunity subject to the provision that those who have had none in the past shall have priority over those who had.