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Constituent
Assembly
Timeline
: for the demand of the Constituent Assembly
1928 Nehru Report
1934 M.N. Roy puts forward Idea of constituent Assembly
1935: INC Officially demanded constituent Assembly
1940 August offers demand accepted
1942 stafford Cripps Proposal (Rejected by Muslim League)
1946 Cabinet Mission
Composition
of Constituent Assembly
Total: 389
296: British India
292: from Governor's Provinces (11)
4 : from Chief Commissioner's Provinces
93: Princely States
working
of the Constituent Assembly
first meeting December 1946
211 members (ML Boycotted)
Sachidanand Sinha [Acting prez.)
Rajinder Prasad elected President later
Post- Independence Act 1947
Assembly made fully Sovereign body
became a Legislative body
Objective Resolution
by J.L. Nehru
Unanimously adopted
guided the formulation of the constitution
materialised into the Preamble
Function
of the constituent assembly
Ratified India's Membership of the commonwealth (May 1949)
National Flag (22 July 1947)
National Anthem and National Song (24 January 1950)
Elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad ithe first President
Committees
J.L Nehru .
Union Powers
Union Constitution
States Committee
Sardar Patel
Provincial Constitution
Advisory Committle on Fundamental Rights, Minorities, Tribal and Excluded Areas
Rajendra Prasad
Rules of Procedure Committee
Steering Committee
Dr. B.R. Amedkar
Drafting committee
Adopted On 26 November 1949
Preamble + 395 Articles +8 Schedules
Criticism
of Constituent Assembly
Not directly Elected
Not a Sovereign Body
Created by British Proposal
Met with British Permission
Time Consuming
2 years 11 months 18 days
Americans took 4 months
Dominated by congress
Lawyer Politician Dominance
Dominated by Hindus
Facts
Elephant as Seal (Symbol)
Legal Advisor: B.N. Rau
Secretary HV. R. Iyengar
Chief Draftsman S.N. Makeryee
Calligraphy: Prem Behari Narain Raizada
Hindi version : Vasant Krishna Vaidya
Decorated by : Nandlal Bose & Beohar Rammanohar Sinha