1) Constitution Assembly
The Constituent
Assembly was a group of accomplished people who worked tirelessly to
provide free India with a constitution that Indians could be proud of. A
constituent assembly is a group of elected officials tasked with creating a
constitution. As a result, a constituent assembly's sole responsibility is to
draft the constitution. The assembly is dissolved once the constitution is
completed and adopted.
2) Formation of the Constituent Assembly of India
(1)
The
Constituent Assembly of India was originally formed to frame the Constitution
of India. M. N. Roy, a pioneer of the Communist movement in India was
the first person who proposed the idea of the Constituent Assembly in 1934.
This idea was later proposed by the Indian National Congress in 1935.
(2)
There was
a session held by the Indian National Congress presided by Pt. Jawahar Lal
Nehru in April 1935 at Lucknow. During this session, the members of
Congress raised an official demand for the Constituent Assembly. Although this
demand was rejected.
(3)
In 1938,
Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru made an impactful statement regarding the Constitution
and Assembly, ‘The constitution of free India must be framed, without outside
interference, by a constituent assembly elected based on adult franchise’
(4)
Later on,
C. Rajagopalachari who was an independence activist and at the same time an
Indian statesman, writer and lawyer raised his voice for the making of
Constituent Assembly of India on 15 November 1939.
(5)
The British
accepted the demand for a Constituent Assembly through their ‘August offer’
of 1940. The elections for the Assembly were held for the first time under the
Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946. To fulfill the purpose of its making, the
Constituent Assembly framed the Constitution of India and implemented it on 16
May 1946.
(6)
Composition: The Assembly was to consist of 389 members:
(a) 292 were elected from
provinces
(b) 93 were from princely
states
(c) 4 from chief
commissioner’s provinces
(7)
Election of Members: The members were not
directly elected by the people but were elected by the Provincial
Legislative Assemblies by the method of proportional representation by means of a
single transferable vote.
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