On 19th November 1949, at the Constituent Assembly Shri T. Prakasam [Madras General] spoke as follows;
“Mr. President, Sir, this is not the Constitution, which I expected for the people of our Country. The Constitution, which I was expecting all with many others, who have been laboring for attaining the freedom of this Country for the Constitution planned out by Mahatma Gandhi, not only planned out, but also endeavour to be put into practice. Panchayat Raj was the one which he planned out and recommended to the nation. Before his advent and before his programme was placed before a Country, nobody ever dreamt that the people divided as they were in every respect would come together under one leadership, under one banner and carry out the Orders given by him and the Congress. He was the one man, who should have been framing a Constitution, a simple Constitution for the people of this Country and that would give relief to all to the millions, his plan was to educate the millions and to make the fight carried on by them to attain freedom ever since he set his foot on this Country after coming from South Africa. You know more about Mahatma Gandhi than myself or than anybody else in this Country and you Sir were good enough to send a reply while the Drafting of the Constitution was in progress, a letter written to you by one ardent constructive worker, an Advocate, an educated man who has spent his time in the villages for a good time. In the letter he suggested about this Panchayat organisation of Mahatma Gandhi and you replied to him in detail and you were impressed by that because you were one of the foremost followers of Mahatma Gandhi and a copy of the letter was given to me by that friend and that letter was referred by you to see – B. N. Rau, a Constitutional Adviser. I raised the point elsewhere when we were discussing and everybody was impressed there but I myself found it difficult to introduce the Panchayat Committee – the frame work of that – into the Constitution that has made considerable progress so we dropped it and the leadership than suggested that there would be the directive principle introduced into the Constitution we have got that here now therefore the Constitution which I was longing to have was that Constitution it is only that Constitution that would really give food and cloth and all the necessities of life to the millions. The millions were ignored during the British Raj and they were ignored in our Country even after the British left and we also ignore them and we are proceeding with this Constitution.
Comment: The Speaker, a prominent leader and administrator in the Tamil Nadu State – a brave fighter. We can see that he had many dreams to incorporated in the Constitution but to pacify him the expected principles were said to have incorporated in the present Directive Principles Chapter Part 4 of the Constitution, which we all know they are only pious principles which cannot be enforced by a Court of Law therefore it is our earnest wish that the Directive Principles shall be amended so that they can become justiciable.