Queen Elizabeth: still the head of state of 14 countries British monarchy and liberal mind of India

British Queen Elizabeth finally left the world after ruling for seventy years. The British monarchy still rules 14 different countries. Even if only symbolic, but apart from Britain, the head of state of these fourteen countries was the Queen. Now he will be replaced by his son Charles.

The head of state is the same as the president in our country. Why are there, do not know, but in India, the President is also the head of the nation in a symbolic way. He has to do all the government work only on the advice of the Prime Minister. All bills are passed or become laws only after the President’s signature but most of them are binding.

Elizabeth-II, who came on her first visit to India, had also reached Kashi. He rode a royal elephant with Kashi King Vibhuti Narayan Singh.

The only difference is that the President of India is elected by the elected MPs and MLAs, whereas in Britain, the post of Head of State goes to the eldest son or daughter of the King or Queen. Sometimes in the event of a constitutional crisis, the role of the President is important. Like the British Queen or Maharaja.

Such a situation had arisen only once during the tenure of the British Queen. Australia’s constitutional crisis broke out in 1975, when the governor-general appointed by the Queen sacked the elected prime minister.

However, five years before the Queen became the head of government, India had been declared an independent republic. But during the time of his father George VI, the British rule in India wreaked havoc. This is the difference between a monarchy and a democracy.

The late Queen Elizabeth visited India for the third time on 14 October 1997. She went barefoot to Jallianwala Bagh and paid tribute to the people killed there by her own General Dyer.

On the one hand, even in today’s era, Britain is sitting on fourteen countries in some form or the other, and on the other hand we are declaring a day of national mourning on 11 September on the death of the Queen, despite keeping us enslaved for two hundred and fifty years.

No matter how powerful any country in the world may be, from where will this generosity like India come from? What would anyone have done if India had not declared this mourning? But it is a sign of our great generosity which certainly makes us the great democracy of the world. Who we are and always will be.

According to Indian sensibilities, the late Queen Elizabeth did only one thing right and that when she came to India for the third time on 14 October 1997, she also went to Amritsar and instead of reaching the Golden Temple first as per the schedule, she reached Jallianwala Bagh barefoot. And there he paid tribute to those killed by his own General Dyer.

However, the 14 countries that are still under the control of the British monarchy are Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts, Papua New Guinea, St. Lucia, Belize, Bahamas, Grenada, Jamaica, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands and St. Vincent and Grenadines.