Explain the problems faced while making the Indian Constitution?
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India being a large and diverse country faced various difficulties while drawing up its Constitution. The problems were: ... The British left it to princely states to ascertain whether they wanted to merge with India or with Pakistan or remain independent. The merger looked like a difficult and uncertain task.
The constituent assembly wasn't a complete sovereign body as it was framed under British government's "cabinet mission plan".The members of the assembly were not free to take up decisions . They were regulated by British government. They had to take permissions from them in order to conduct meetings of assembly and other related issues. They had limits and complete authority wasn't given to them.
After independence, assembly became a completely sovereign body.
The prominent problems faced by the assembly were:
1)How to frame a constitution that can satisfy a huge population of around 360 million people that too with distinct culture and heritage.
2)How to ensure democracy for all citizens of the country & what should be the limits of the democracy .
3)As the country had already witnessed communal violence during partition so the another main aim of the assembly members was how to design a constitution that can ensure the prevention of communal violence in future?
4)There was demand within the assembly to frame states on the basis of languages spoken, so a committee(jvp) was framed to look into this matter and committee decided not to go ahead with linguistic division(with the fear that this may led to Subnationalism) finally the assembly left the decision up to the future parliament.
5) the last challenge for assembly was how to integrate princely states as there were many princely states who were ready to sacrifice national interest for their personal gains.