Constituent Assembly

Seal of the Constituent Assembly

Introduction
A Constituent Assembly is a body of representatives responsible for drafting a
constitution.Once the constitution has been drafted and ready to adopt,the body is
no longer required and is therefore dissolved.It's a form of represntative asembly
since the members are also representative(elected or unelectd).
The Consituent Assembly of India was the appointed body to draft the Constitution
of India.Members of The Constituent Assembly served as the nation's first
parliament,after Britishers left Inidia in 1947.It existed for three years.

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.All the other laws have to
conform to the consitution.The document lays down the governing framework for
fundamental political code, structure, procedures, powers, and duties of
government institutions and sets out fundamental rights,directive principles,and
the duties of citizens.The constitution of India is is the lengthiest constitution in the
world. B. R. Ambedkar(chairman of the drafting committee) is hugely considered to
be its chief architect.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Founded
- 6 December 1946

Disbanded - 24 January 1950

Preceded by - Imperial Legislative Council

Succeeded by - Parliament of India

The idea of constitution assembly of india was first proposed by mmn The idea of
Constituent Assembly of India was first proposed by Manabendra Nath Roy or MN
Roy in 1934 and it became the official demand of Indian National Congres in 1935.

It was accepted in August 1940 in the August Offer however, constituted under the
Under Cabinet Mission plan 1946..It. was first elected for undivided,India but
after.partition, some of its memberjceased to exist as a separate,constituent
assembly,was created for Pakistan.
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Assembly was not elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage, and Muslims
and Sikhs received special representation as minorities.

The members of the Constituent Assembly were elected on a,limited franchise.

The Cabinet Mission,Plan, which set up,the Constituent Assembly of,India,
discarded,full,adult framchise for elections to the Constituent Assembly and
instead,recommended indirect elections by the members,of the recently/elected
Provincial\Legislative|Assemblies. In addition to members'elected by
thejProvinciallLegislativelAssembly (292), the Princely States and the
Chief.Commissioner’s.Provinces contributed 93 and 4 members of
the,Constituent.Assembly taking the total.membership.to 389. After partition, the
total number of seats came down to 299 as some Provinces and.Princely States
became part of Pakistan. Rajendra Prasad.was elected as the Chairman of the
Constituent Assembly.

Members
The total members initially amounted to 389. Post-partition number was 299 for
the Constituent Assembly of India. Out of these,229 members were from provinces
and 70 from princely states. Women occupied 9 of the total seats. The
membership plan was roughly as per suggestions of the Cabinet Mission plan. The
basis of divisions of seats was “population” in roughly 1:10 Lakh ratio.

The Constitution of India was adopted on 26 November in 1949 and the members
marked their signatures on 24 January, 1950. Of all, 284 members actually signed
the Constitution. On that day when the Constitution was being signed.

Indian National Congress:

Total seats-208
B. R. Ambedkar
Jawaharlal Nehru
Rajendra Prasad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Sardar Vallabhai Patel J
H.C. Mookerjee
C. Rajagopalachari
Sarojini Naidu
B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
N Gopalaswami Ayyangar
R.K. Sidhwa
Purushottam Das Tandon
Alladi Krishnaswamy Ayyar
John Matthai
Kanayalal Nanabhai Desai
K.M. Munshi
Kailash Nath Katju
Govind Ballabh Pant
H.N. Kunzru
J. B. Kripalani
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri
Naziruddin Ahmad
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
B. Shiva Rao
Jairamdas Daulatram
Hari Vinayak Pataskar
M. R. Jayakar
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Seth Govind Das
Hansa Jivraj Mehta
PS Deshmukh
T.T. Krishnamachari
Jai Narain Vyas
Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir
Satyanarayan Sinha
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Thirumala Rao
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
K. Kamaraj
Ramnath Goenka
Moturi Satyanarayana
M. R. Masani
Shibban Lal Saxena
H.V Kamath
Kengal Hanumanthaiah
Jagjivan Ram
Frank Anthony
P. Kakkan
G. Durgabai
C. Subramaniam
Purnima Banerjee
O.V. Alagesan
S. Nagappa
Satish Chandra
K.T. Shah

Communist Party of India:

Total seats-1
Somnath Lahiri

Akali Dal:
Total seats-2
Hukum Singh
Ujjal Singh

All India Muslim League:

Total seats-73

Twenty-eight members of the Muslim League joined the Indian Assembly, and 93
members were later nominated from the princely states; the Congress Party
secured a majority of 82 percent.

Muslim League walked away from the Cabinet Mission Plan and the Indian
constitution-making process. Further, it did not want the Congress to nominate any
Muslim member.
Chaudhari Khaliquzzaman
Raghib Ahsan
Begum Aizaz Rasul
and more...
Princely States:
Total seats-93