On 5th November 1948 Shri Ram Narayan Singh [Bihar General] at the Constituent Assembly spoke as follows;
“Sir, I congratulate my Honourable Friend, Dr. Ambedkar on the opportunity he go of introducing this Constitution Bill and I support his motion. As political workers we always talked of Swaraj – which means that power will from the British direct to the people in the villages. But I do not think this proposed constitution will give that power to them. As before once I five or seven Years they will give their votes and their power will end there. Later on they will be governed as in British days. What we all want is that the political organisation in the Country should serve the people; we do not want to be governed as before. We do not want Governors and even Ministers. The political and other Organisations should think how best to serve the people of the Country. As regard the powers of the President and Ministers, my Honourable Friend Dr. Ambedkar has very well appreciated this Parliamentary system. He was not ashamed to admit that many things have been borrowed from the other Constitutions. It is of course a fact that beggars and borrowers do not feel ashamed of what they do but those who do not want it feel the pangs of it. This Constitution will only indicate to the outside world that we have no originality and only borrow from the Constitutions of other countries. I say emphatically that the Constitution is not what is wanted by the country.”
Comment: The real effect of Constitution withal the festivity it was introduced speak of nothing tangible to the welfare of the country then and now.