Constituent Assembly was established based on the proposals of the Cabinet Mission Plan.
The proposal of a Constituent Assembly was put forward by MN Roy.
Election was conducted in November 1946 to develop a Constituent Assembly while there were 389 members.
It was the provincial assemblies through controlled voting that elected the members of Constituent Assembly.
The developed Constituent Assembly had 299 members.
The initial meeting of the Constituent Assembly was conducted on 9 December 1946. The president of first meeting of Constituent Assembly is Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha.
Dr Rajendra Prasad was voted as the permanent president of Constituent Assembly after two days.
The course of creation of constitution began on 13 December 1946 with the foreword of an ‘objective proposal’ by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
BN Rao was chosen as the constitutional advisor of the Constituent Assembly.
The Constituent Assembly selected 22 committees to pact with different tasks of constitution – making.
As a Sovereign body of India, the meeting of Constituent Assembly was first conducted in 1947 August 14.
The Drafting Committee having seven members was appointed in 29th August 1947. The Dr. BR Ambedkar was chosen as the Chairman.
The other members of the Committee were N.Gopalswami Ayyangar, Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, KM Munshi, Mohammad Sadullah, BL Mittar (replaced by N.Madhav Rao), DP Khaitan (died in 1948 and was replaced by TT Krishnamachari).
The draft of the constitution was presented to the Constituent Assembly on 8th February, 1948.
It had taken two years, eleven months and eighteen days to complete the entire work.
It was in 1949 November 26, the Constituent Assembly president signed in constitution. It was also during this day, the constitution was accepted.
The Indian Artist who decorated the hand written copy of the Constitution is Nandalal Bose.
The constitution as approved on November 26, 1949 enclosed a Preamble 395 Articles and 8 Schedules.
At present the constitution contains Preamble 458 Articles, 12 Schedules, 25 Parts and 98 Amendments.
Constitution came into existence in 1950 January 26 and this day is celebrated as Republic Day.
Father of Indian Constitution is Dr Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar.
The Indian constitution has become the largest written constitution of the world.
Dr. BR. Ambedkar is the president of Drafting Committee.
The incident that leads to the formation of Indian Constituent Assembly is Cabinet Mission Plan in 1946 (March).
The British prime minister who sends the cabinet mission to India is Lord Attley.
B. Nagendra Rao is the person who served as advisor during the India Constitution Development Period.
The two famous women members in Indian Constituent Assembly were Sarojini Naidu and Hansa Metha.
The famous congress party leaders as members in Indian Constituent Assembly were Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Rajendra Prasad, KM Munshi, C. Rajagopalachari, Abdul Kalam Azad.
The members of Indian Constituent Assembly, who were famous advocates, were TT. Krishnamachari, Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer and Gopala Swamy Iyengar.
The preamble of Indian constitution was written by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Nehru called “Preamble” as the “Soul of Indian Constitution”.
Ambedkar called “Article 32” as the heart of Indian Constitution.
The preface of Indian constitution starts with the tagline “We, the people of India”.
According to the preface of constitution, the constitutional position of India is socialist neutral to religion democratic Republic.
When the Indian Constitution came into existence in 1950 January 26, Only the 395th section, 8th table and 22nd parts were included.
