<P> The Constituent Assembly of India met for its fifth session at 11 pm on 14 August in the Constitution Hall in New Delhi . The session was chaired by the president Rajendra Prasad . In this session, Jawaharlal Nehru delivered the Tryst with Destiny speech proclaiming India's independence . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> <P> Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially . At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom . A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance . It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity . </P> </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Tryst with Destiny speech, Jawaharlal Nehru, 15 August 1947 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> <P> Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially . At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom . A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance . It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity . </P> </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially . At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom . A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance . It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity . </P>

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