Write down the composition of the constitution assembly?
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The Constituent Assembly consisted of 385 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. Mr. B N Rao was the Constitutional Advisor of the Assembly. The first meeting of the Constitution Assembly was on 9th December 1946 in which Dr. Sachidanand was the interim President of it. On December 11, 1946 Dr. Rajendra prasad was elected as its president. There was 13 Committees for framing the Constitution. The all Important the Committee who take the responsibility of drafting the Constitution called Drafting Committee formed on 29th August, 1947. The members were: 1. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar - Chairman 2. N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar 3. Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar (a distinguished jurist) 4. K. M. Munshi (a distinguished jurist) 5. Syyed Mohd.Saadulla 6. N. Madhav Rao (in place of B. L. Mitra) 7. D. P. Khaitan (T. Krishnamachari - after death of Mr. khaitan in 1948). The Constitution was finally passed and accepted on 26th November 1949. The last session of Assembly was on 24th January 1950. Which elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the President of India. In all, 284 members of the Assembly signed the official copies of the Indian Constitution which came into effect on 26th January 1950. Which is known and celebrated as the Republic Day of India. Although the Constitution was ready on 26th November, 1949 but was delayed till 26th January, 1950 because in 1929 on this day Indian National Congress demanded 'Poorna Swaraj' in Lahore session under Jawahar Lal Nehru. Constituent Assembly took 2 years-11 months-18 days to complete the Constitution. Originally it had 395 articles & 8 schedules (12 at present). Constituent Assembly adopted our National flag on 22nd July, 1947. It was designed by Pingali Venkaiah of Andhra Pradesh. The idea to have Constitution was given by M. N. Roy (Political Philosopher).