Essay on if i am The member of Constituent Assembly
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In a democracy its citizen enjoys not only the right of running the government of the country but also the privilege of framing its constitution. The Constituent Assembly means a Constitution making body, i.e. an assembly of people or a convention set up by the people of a country for the purpose of framing its constitution.
The idea of Constituent Assembly was implicit in the demand for Swaraj made by the Indian national congress as early as 1906. In 1936 the congress resolved that “the congress stands for a genuine democratic State in India, where power has been transferred to the people as a whole and the government is under their effective control. Such a State can only once into existence through a Constituent Assembly having the power to determine finally the constitution of the country. On March 15, 1946 Mr. Attlee, the labour Prime Minister categorically admitted the right of Indians to frame their own Constitution.
The British parliament passed the Indian Independence Act, 1947 in July of the same year. As per the Independence Act two independent dominions were created from August 15, 1947.
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The constituent Assembly which was already been formed went into action as per Cabinet Mission Plan. Its total membership for the whole of India was 389 out of which 93 members were from the Princely States and 296 were elected from the British Indian Provinces.
The Constituent Assembly, when it met for the first time in December 9, 1946 was not a sovereign body. It had to follow the prescribed procedure set up by the Cabinet Mission of British Parliament. On December 11,1946, the Indian National Congress elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the permanent Chairman of the Constituent Assembly. Before its transformation into a fully sovereign body on August 15, 1947 the Constituent Assembly had set up various Committees, such as the Union Powers Committee on Minorities and fundamental Rights Committee on financial Relations, Committee on Chief Commissioners of Provinces and Advisory Committee on Tribal Areas. The reports of these Committees were considered and a Drafting Committee, With Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the then Law Member of Government of India, as Chairman, was appointed on August 29, 1947 to give a legal form to the decisions embodied in the reports. The Draft Constitution was submitted to the Constituent Assembly on November 4 1948. The new Constitution was inaugurated and adopted by Indian Parliament on January 26, 1950.
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