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  • Constituent Assembly of India

    Unicameral assembly for making the Constitution of India

    Constituent Assembly of India

    Seal of the Constituent Assembly

    Type
    Founded6 December 1946 (1946-12-06)
    Disbanded25 January 1950 (1950-01-25)
    Preceded byImperial Legislative Council
    Succeeded byParliament of India (1951-1952)
    Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (1947)

    First President

    Sachchidananda Sinha

    President (Permanent)

    Dr. Rajendra Prasad, INC

    Vice President

    H. C. Mookerjee
    V. T. Krishnamachari

    Chairman of the Drafting Committee

    B. R. Ambedkar, SCF

    Constitutional Advisor / Legal Advisor

    B. N. Rau

    Seats389 (December 1946 – June 1947)
    299 (August 1947 – January 1950)

    Political groups

      INC: 208 seats

      Others (inc. CPI, ABHM, JP, SAD, Independent etc.): 15 seats

      Princely States: 93 seats

      AIML: 73 seats, (until August 1947)

    Voting system

    Single transferable vote
    Old Parliament House, Raisina Hill, New Delhi

    Constituent Assembly of India was partly elected and partly nominated body to frame the Constitution of India. It was elected by the Provincial assemblies of British India follow

    Understanding the Drafting Committee

    The Government of India Act (1935) was superseded as India’s governing document on January 26, 1950, by the Constitution of India. After decades of British control, the Constitution established our nation as a fully autonomous republic in the Commonwealth of Nations, with the President of India as the titular leader of the Indian Union. Even though the constitution went into force in 1950, the Indian Constituent Assembly accepted it on November 26, 1949.

    The Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution

    Following India’s independence, the Constituent Assembly established a drafting committee by resolution to review the draft text of the Constitution of India provided by the Constitutional Advisor. This gave effect to the Assembly’s previous resolutions and contained any issues which are supplementary thereto or which must be covered in such a constitution. They were also supposed to deliver to the Assembly the constitutional drafts as updated by the committee.

    But Who Drafted the Indian Constitution?

    Seven members drafted the Indian Constitution. They were B. R. Ambedkar, Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, N. Gopalaswami, K. M. Munshi, Mohammad Saadulla, B. L. Mitter and D. P. Khaitan. B. R. Ambedkar was elected as the C

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