Making of Indian Constitution
British Rule - 1764-1947
1934 - Manvendra Nath Roy. He belongs to the swaraj party. First time demand for constituent assembly.
1935 - First official demand by Indian national congress for constituent assembly.
1940 - August offer
The British Government accepted the demand in principle in what is known as the August offer of 1940.
1940 - Cripps Mission
Sir Stafford Cripps came with a proposal for formulation world war - 2 but rejected by muslim league.muslim demand for separate nation.
1946 - Cabinet Mission Plan
The members of the cabinet mission were
- Lord Pethick Lawrence
- Sir Stafford Cripps
- A.V Alexander
It arrived in new delhi on 24 march 1946.
It published its plan on 16 may 1946.
Under the cabinet mission plan election was held to formulate constituent assembly.
COMPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
The allocation of seats was done on the basic of population.
The total strength of the constituent assembly.
Total members - 389
296 - Elected (British India)
93 - Nominated (Princely states)
However,93 Seats of princely state were not filled because princely state decided not to participate in constituent assembly.
Seats allocated to each British province to be divided among the three principle communities-
- Sikha
- Muslims
- General
All except Muslims and Sikha in proportional to their population.
296 British India Member
208 seats - congress
73 seats - Muslim
15 seats - small group of Independent
IMPORTANT POINTS
The constituent assembly was to be partly elected and partly nominated body.
The members of constituent were to be indirect elected.
Total number of women in constituent assembly is 15.
MAKING OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION DAY
Working of construction assembly
9 December 1946 - The constituent assembly held its first meeting.
Venune - National Library ( which is known now centre hall of parliament)
Dr Sachidanand Sinha - Oldest member of assembly was appointed as the president of constituent assembly.
President Idea - Give by J.B KRIPALANI
He was elected as Temporary president ( mean Interion President)
Muslim League entirely boycotted the meeting demanding a separate state of Pakistan.
11 December 1946
Election - Constituent assembly president.
Dr.Rajendra Prasad elected as permanent president of the constituent assembly.
H.C Mukherjee and Krishnamachari were elected as the vice-president of constituent assembly.
Sir B.N Rau was appointed as the constitutional Advisor.
OBJECTIVE RESOLUTION
13 December 1946
Jawaharlal lal Nehru moved the “Objective Resolution” on December 13,1946.
It laid down the fundamental and Philosophy of the constitutional structure.
It was adopted by the assembly on 22 January,1947.
It modified version from this preamble of the present constitution.
Working for the Constitution
The constituent assembly appointed a number of committees to deal with the different task of the constitution making.
Important commitee with their leaders
- Drafting committee - Jawaharlal Nehru
- Union Power committee - Jawaharlal Nehru
- Union Power Committee - Jawaharlal Nehru
- State committee - Jawaharlal Nehru
- Steering committee - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- Rules of Procedure - Dr.Rajendra Prasad
- Provincial constitution - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Sub-Fundamental Right - J.B Kripalani Committee
- Order of Business committee - DR.KM.MUNSHI
Drafting committee
Drafting committee was setup on 29 August 1947.
Dr.B.r Ambadkar was the chairman of the drafting committee.
Drafting committee consisted of seven members induding president of drafting committee.
- Dr.B.r.Ambedkar
- N.Goplswami Ayengar
- Auadi Krishnawami Ayyar
- Dr K.M.Munshi
- Syed Mohammad Rav ( He replaced B.L.Mitter)
- T.T.Krishnamachari (He replaced D.P.Khaitan)
22 July 1947
The constituent assembly adopted the national flag.
It was designed by Pingali Venkayya(He is from Andhara Pradesh)
India Achieved Independence
As a result of the partition under the mount batten plan of 3 June 1947. Seperate Constituent assembly was set up for Pakistan.After the membership of the assembly was reduced to 299.
Before independence - 389 member
296-British india
93- Princely states
After independence -299 members
299 - Indian province
70 - Princely states
OTHER FUNCTION OF ASSEMBLY
Constituent assembly
To make constitution
President -Rajendra Prasad
To make law president
G.V.Mavalakar(he is the first speaker of lok sabha )
Interning Government
Formed - 2 September 1946
5 member of muslim League Include
President - J.L Nehru
Food/Agriculture head - Dr.Rajendra Prasad
Labour Head - Jagyivam Ram
Defence - Sa
rdar Beldev Singh
Education - C.Raja gopalachari
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