1. Meaning
2. Historical Background
3. Objective of the Constituent Assembly for India
4. Composition of the Constituent Assembly.
5. Working of the Constituent Assembly
6. Changes in Constituent Assembly after the Independence Act 1947
7. Provisions
8. Presiding Officers
9. Composition
10. Changes after the declaration of Partition
11. Contribution of Non-Constituent Assembly Members
12. Draft Committee
13. Dissolution of Constituent Assembly
14. Significance
15. Challenges
16. Key Members Involved
17. Adoption of National Symbols
18. Adoption of National Symbols
19. Enactment and Adoption of the Indian Constitution
20. Dissolution of Constituent Assembly
21. Criticism
22. Important Facts
23. Conclusion
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Topic – Constituent Assembly: History, Composition, Aim, Objective (Notes)
Subject – Political Science
(Constitution of India)
Table of Contents
Constituent assembly was formed to frame the constitution for India in 1946 on the basis of the Cabinet Mission plan. The Constituent Assembly was an elected body tasked with drafting a constitution.After completion of framing the Constitution, the assembly was dissolved. It is considered a kind of representative democracy because members of the constituent assembly were indirectly elected and some were nominated members. In 1934, M.N. Roy proposed the idea of a constituent assembly for the first time.
Meaning
A constituent assembly is a body of representatives that is elected to create or change their country’s constitution.
Historical Background
- M.N. Roy, a pioneer of the communist movement in India was the first person to put forward the ideas of the Constituent Assembly for India in 1934.
- Indian National Congress (INC) for the first time officially demanded a Constituent Assembly to draft the Indian Constitution in 1935.
- On behalf of the INC, Jawaharlal Nehru declared in 1938 that ” the Constitution of free India must be framed, without outside interference, by a Constituent Assembly elected on the basis of adult franchise.”
- British Government finally accepted the demand in the ‘August Offer’ of 1940.
- Cripps Proposal also underlined setting up a Constitution-making body for India after World War II.
- The Cabinet Mission of 1946 rejected the idea of two Constituent Assemblies for two dominions India and Pakistan.It proposed a scheme for the single Constituent Assembly which was not acceptable to the Muslim League.
Objective of the Constituent Assembly for India
- To develop India as an independent sovereign republic.
- To create a democratic Union with self-government for all constituent parts.
- To guarantee and secure to all Indians. Justice: Social, economic, and political.
- Equality of status and opportunities for all
- Freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation association, and action.
- To provide adequate safeguards for backward and tribal areas, minorities as well as the poor and other disadvantaged groups.
- To uphold the Republic’s territorial integrity and sovereign rights on land, sea, and air in accordance with the justice and law of civilized nations.
- To ensure India’s rightful and honoured place in the world.
- To contribute to the advancement of world peace and the well-being of humanity.
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