who demanded for constitution assembly
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Congress won 208 seats, and the Muslim League 73. After this election, the Muslim League refused to cooperate with the Congress, and the political situation deteriorated. Hindu-Muslim riots began, and the Muslim League demanded a separate constituent assembly for Muslims in India.
M.N. Roy was the first to demand a Constituent Assembly for India in 1934. A year later, the Indian National Congress made this a formal demand in a resolution that rejected a British proposal (‘White Paper’) on constitutional reforms for India - which would later become the Government of India Act 1935. The resolution stated that ‘the only satisfactory alternative to the White Paper is a constitution drawn by a Constituent Assembly elected on the basis of adult suffrage or as near it as possible...’. In the years that followed, this demand for a Constituent Assembly was reiterated in a range of Congress Party resolutions and in its leaders' speeches at various forums.