Composition,function of constituent assembly india
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Composition
The Constituent Assembly consisted of 389 members, of which 292 were elected by the elected members of the provincial Legislative Assemblies while 93 members were nominated by the Princely States. To these were to be added a representative each from the four chief Commissioners provinces of Delhi, Ajmer-Marwar, Coorg and British Baluchistan.
Each Province and each Indian state or Group of States were allotted the total number of seats proportional to their respective population roughly in the ratio of one to a million.
Seats allocated to each British Province were to be decided among among the three principal communities - Muslims, Sikhs and General in proportion to their population.
Function
A constituent assembly or constitutional assembly is a body or assembly of popularly elected representatives which is assembled for the purpose of drafting or adopting a constitution or similar document. The constituent assembly is entirely elected by popular vote[citation needed]; that is, all constituent assemblies are constitutional conventions, but a constitutional convention is not necessarily a constituent assembly.
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