what was the constituent assembly
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 of India was a body consisting of indirectly elected representatives tasked with drafting the Constitution of India. Initially it included representatives from those regions as well which later went on to become a part of Pakistan and present day Bangladesh. The Constituent Assembly for India had 217 members. It was formed in 1946. It approved the draft of the Constitution of India on 26th November, 1949. The Constitution came into effect on 26th January, 1950. The Assembly also served as the provisional parliament of independent India till the first general elections in 1952.