Lucknow: Chief justice of India B R Gavai on Saturday said that India’s strength lays in its Constitution.

Speaking at a seminar on ‘Constitution and Constitutionalism: The Philosophy of B R Ambedkar’, at Allahabad University in Prayagraj, the CJI said that Ambedkar was a true nationalist.

‘’Despite there being some issues inside and outside the country, India is still united and strong and the credit for the same goes to the Constitution,’’ the CJI said.

He cited the examples of Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and said that India had been able to protect the fundamental rights only because of its Constitution.

‘’If the Constitution is the structure, then constitutionalism is the soul and the soul believes that the public representatives elected by the people will be accounta

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