Meeting placeThe Constituent Assembly of India was elected to write the. Following 's independence from Great Britain in 1947, its members served as the nation's first Parliament. An idea for a Constituent Assembly was proposed in 1934 bya pioneer of the and an advocate of. It became an official formation of indian constitution of the Indian National Congress in 1935, C. Rajagopalachari voiced the demand for a Constituent Assembly on 15 November 1939 based on adult franchise, and was accepted by the British in August 1940. On 8 August 1940, a statement was made by about the expansion of the and the establishment of a War Advisory Council. This offer, known as theincluded giving full weight to minority opinions and allowing Indians to draft their own constitution. Under the of 1946, elections were held for the first time for the Constituent Assembly. The Constitution of India was drafted by the Constituent Assembly, and it was implemented under the Cabinet Mission Plan on 16 May 1946. The members of the Constituent Assembly were elected by the provincial assemblies by a system of proportional representation. The total membership of the Constituent Assembly was 389: 292 were representatives of the states, 93 represented the princely states and four were from the chief commissioner provinces of Delhi, Ajmer-Merwara, Coorg Near Madikeri and British Baluchistan. The elections for the 296 seats assigned to the British Indian provinces were completed by August 1946. Congress won 208 seats, and the Muslim League 73. Hindu-Muslim riots began, and the Muslim League demanded a separate constituent assembly for Muslims in India. On 3 June 1947the last British Governor-General of India, announced his intention to scrap the Cabinet Mission Plan; this culminated in formation of indian constitution and the separate nations of India and Pakistan. The Indian Independence Act was passed on 18 July 1947 and, although it was earlier declared that India would become independent in June 1948, this event led to independence on 15 August 1947. The Constituent Assembly elected for an undivided India met for the first time on 9 December 1946, reassembling on 14 August 1947 as a sovereign body and successor to the British parliament's authority in India. As a result of the partition, under the Mountbatten plan a separate was established on 3 June 1947. The representatives of the areas incorporated into Pakistan ceased to be members of the Constituent Assembly of India. New elections were held for the West Punjab and East Bengal which became part of Pakistan, although East Bengal later to become ; the membership of the Constituent Assembly was 299 after the reorganization, and it met on 31 December 1947. It existed for approximately three years, the first parliament of India after independence in 1947. The Assembly was not elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage, and Muslims and Sikhs received special representation as minorities. The Muslim League boycotted the Assembly after failing to prevent its creation. formation of indian constitution Although a large part of the Constituent Assembly was drawn from the Congress Party in a one-party environment, the Congress Party included a wide diversity of opinions—from conservative industrialists to radical Marxists, to Hindu revivalists. The Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December 1946, and its last session was held on 24 January 1950. The hope of the Assembly was expressed by Jawaharlal Nehru: The first task of this Assembly is to free India through a new constitution, to feed the starving people, and to clothe the naked masses, and to give every Indian the fullest opportunity to develop himself according to his capacity. This is certainly a great task. We, are sitting here and there in despair in many places, and unrest in many cities. The atmosphere is surcharged with these quarrels and feuds which are called communal disturbances, and unfortunately we sometimes cannot avoid them. But at present the greatest and most important question in India is how to solve the problem of the poor and the starving. Wherever we turn, we are confronted with this problem. If we cannot solve this problem soon, all our paper constitutions will become useless and purposeless. Keeping this aspect in view, who could suggest to us to postpone and wait. Constituent Assembly members were elected indirectly by members of the newly elected provincial assemblies, and initially included representatives for those provinces that formed part of some of which are now in. The Constituent Assembly had 299 representatives, including fifteen formation of indian constitution. The was formed on 2 September 1946 from the newly elected Constituent Assembly. The held a large majority in the Assembly 69 percent of the seatsand the held nearly all the seats reserved in the Assembly for Muslims. There were also members of smaller parties, such as thethe and the. In June 1947 delegations from,and the withdrew to form themeeting in. On 15 August 1947 the and became independent nations, and members of the Constituent Assembly who had not withdrawn to Karachi became. Twenty-eight members of the Muslim League joined the Formation of indian constitution Assembly, and 93 members were later nominated from the ; the Congress Party secured a majority of 82 percent. By early 1947, representatives of the Muslim League and princely states joined, and the Assembly approved the draft constitution on 26 Formation of indian constitution 1949. On 26 January 1950 the constitution took effect commemorated asand the Constituent Assembly became the Provisional Parliament of India continuing until after the first elections under the new constitution in 1952. Also chairing the assembly's Minorities Committee, Mookerjee was appointed governor of West Bengal after India became a republic. Jurist was appointed constitutional adviser to the assembly; Rau prepared the original draft of the constitution, and was later appointed a judge in the in. Rau prepared an initial draft based on the reports and his research into the constitutions of other nations. Demanding a separate state, the Muslim League boycotted the meeting. Sachchidananda Sinha was elected temporary president of the assembly, in accordance with French practice. Rau was appointed as its constitutional adviser. It finally became the Preamble of the constitution. Rajendra Prasad elected the first president of India. The assembly was chaired by Dr. Rajendra Prasad when it met as a constituent body, and by when it met as a legislative body. Out of these, eight were major committees and the others were minor committees. Kunhiraman,V. Perumalswamy Reddy, Raja Swetachalapati Ramakrishna Renga Roa of Bobbili,O. Ramaswamy Reddiar, Sheik Galib Sahib,U. Srinivasa Mallya, V Subramaniam,P. Wilson, Mohamed Ismail Sahib, K. Ahmed Ibrahim, Mahboob Ali Baig Sahib Bahadur,pattam Tanupillai Bombay:, Joseph Alban D'Souza, Kanayalal Nanabhai Desai,,, Ramchandra Manohar Nalavade,, Abdul Kadar Mohammad Shaikh, A. Khan West Bengal:, Lakshmi Kanta Maitra, Mihir Lal Chattopadhyay, Satis Chandra Samanta, Suresh Chandra Majumdar, Upendranath Barman, Prabhudayal Himatsingka, H. Mukherjee, Surendra Mohan Ghose,Ari Bahadur Gurung, R. Platel,Raghib Ahsan,Jasimuddin Ahmad, Naziruddin Ahmad,Abdul Halim Ghuznavi United Provinces:,,,,,,,,,,,Mohanlal Gautam,Hyder Hussain,,East Punjab:, Thakurdas Bhargava, Bikramlal Sondhi, Yashwant Rai,, Sardar Bhopinder Singh Mann, Sardar Rattan Singh Lohgarh Chaudhry Suraj Mal Bihar:,,,,of Darbhanga,,,,,. 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Madhava Rau, Raj Kunwar,Yudhishthir Mishra Central Provinces States:Kishorimohan Tripathi, Ramprasad Potai United Provinces States:Madras States:Vindhya Pradesh: Avdesh Pratap Singh, Shambu Nath Shukla, Ram Sahai Tiwari, Mannulalji Dwidedi Cooch Behar: Himmat Singh K. Lakshmikanth, Indian Polity for Civil Services Examinations, 3rd ed. Archived from on 11 May 2011. The Indian Constitution, Cornerstone of a Nation. India Since Independence: Revised Edition. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2008.
