NEW DELHI, July 26 -- "Congress has won political freedom, but it has yet to win economic, social and moral freedoms. These freedoms are more difficult than political, if only because they are constructive, less exciting and not spectacular" -- Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi, 27 January 1948)
'Purna Swaraj' was adopted as the birth right of all Indians in the 1929 Lahore Congress. It was envisaged to be built on the pillars of political, economic, social and moral freedoms. Out of these four-fold freedoms, India had won her political freedom in 1947. But even after seven decades and more of her political freedom, India is yet to win the remaining three freedoms that are essential for her to become a 'Sovereign Democratic Republic' that she is e...