The Constituent Assembly
The members of the Constituent Assembly were the elected representatives who drafted the document of the Indian constitution. The elections to this Assembly were held in 1946 July and the first meeting was held on December 1946. Because of partition, the constituent assembly was also divided.
The Constituent Assembly is constituted of 299 members who adopted the constitution on 26 November 1947 and came into effect on 26 January 1950. There were 8 Major committees and 15 minor committees in the constituent assembly for different subjects.
Making of the Indian Constitution: Constituent Assembly
The Indian Constitution is a single document that is written and codified, and enacted by a single body. The Indian Constitution came to be adopted in the year 1949 on 26th November and members of the parliament signed it on January 24 in 1950.
The Indian Constitution is an amalgamation of supreme, rigidity, and flexibility. The Constituent Assembly had been written and debated between December 1946 to January 1950. The consensus was required by the freedom struggle which transformed society and politics. The document was lengthy and compromised 395 Articles and 8 Schedules.