TN Governor addresses national symposium

Chennai: The Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu Mr. R.N. Ravi on Tuesday appealed to youth,especially students of law, to take Constitution outside the confines of institutions and to the masses across India.

“Constitution is the crystallisation of dreams of millions of people – freedom fighters,martyrs who laid down their lives to realise the aspirations of India, and it needs to be celebrated,” Mr. Ravi said, while speaking at the Symposium on National Law Day organised by Saveetha School of Law.

The Constitution reflects the ideals and dreams to ensure that every citizen got social, economic, and political justice, with a right to dignified life. The Constitution, he said, also gave the direction to achieve goals of founding fathers of this great nation. Now that it has been 76 years since independence, it was now time to take a pause and recall if the ideals of social justice was taken all across the country. Pointing out even in a progressive State like Tamil Nadu, where there were incidents of

human waste being discharged into a drinking water tank, and untouchability, the Governor said that social justice could not be ensured through implementation of law alone, and that it had come from within every individual, and youth had to be at the forefront of this great cause.

He said that India, which was among the wealthiest nations, had also at the same time suffered a lot due to centuries of colonisation and foreign invasions.