History and composition of constituent assembly-also includes a quick revision of g.o.i. act 1935

#History and composition of constituent assembly for the purpose of formulation of constitution of independent India
#first of all M.N.roy used the term constituent assembly in India ,he was a pioneer of communist ideology in India
in 1934
#In 1935 the Indian national Congress officially demanded a constituent assembly to frame the constitution of India
#In 1938 pt.jawaharlal Nehru on behalf of Inc declared that the constitution of free India must be framed by Indians itself without external influence,by a constituent assembly elected on the basis of adult franchise
#the demands of Indians were accepted by British government in August 1940 known as August offer
#sir Stafford Cripps was sent to India in 1942 with a draft proposal of the British parliament to frame the constitution of India but this offer was rejected by Muslim league who protested against it and instead demanded for two constituent assembly for two separate nations India and Pakistan
#finally a cabinet mission was sent to India with a proposal of single constituent assembly which was accepted by both Inc as well as Muslim league
#the constituent assembly was constituted in November 1946 under the scheme formulated by the cabinet mission plan
#the total strength of the constituent assembly was 389,out of which 296 seats were to be allocated to British India and 93 seats to the princely states.
#out of 296 seats allotted to British India,292 members were to be drawn from the eleven governors' provinces and four seats from the four chief commissioners provinces one from each
#each province and princely state were to be allotted seats in proportion to their respective population, roughly ,one seat was to be allotted for every million population
#seats allocated to each British province were to be decided among the three principal communities -muslims,sikhs and general, in proportion to their population
#the representatives of each community were to be elected by members of that community in the provincial legislative assembly and voting was to be by the method of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote
#the representatives of princely states were to be nominated by the heads of the princely states
#it is thus clear that the constituent assembly was to be a partly elected and partly nominated body.moreover, the members were to be indirectly elected by the members of the provincial assemblies,who themselves were elected on a limited franchise
#the elections to the constituent assembly were held in July-august 1946
#the INC won 208 seats,the Muslim league 73 seats and the small groups and independents got the remaining 15 seats
#However, the 93 seats allotted to the princely states were not filled as they decided to stay away from the constituent assembly
#members of constituent assembly were not directly elected by the people of India on the basis of adult franchise,the assembly comprised representatives of all sections of indian society including women of all these sections.
#the assembly included all important personalities of India at that time with the exception of mahatma Gandhi and MA Jinnah
#on 9 december 1946 constituent assembly held its first meeting
#the Muslim league boycotted the meeting and insisted on a separate state of Pakistan hence, the meeting was attended by only 211members
#DR sachchidanand sinha was elected as the temporary president of the assembly
#later,on december 11,1946 Dr Rajendra prasad and HC Mukherjee were elected as the president and vice president of the assembly respectively.
#sir B.N. RAU was appointed as the constitutional advisor to the assembly
#government of India act 1935
#legislative power of veto vested in viceroy
#separation of legislative power between centre and province
#federal list, provincial list and concurrent list
#residuary power to legislate vested in viceroy
#establishment of reserve bank of India
#estaablishment of federal public service commission, provincial public service commission as well as joint public service commission for two or more states
#establishment of a federal court, which was set up in 1937
# establishment of bicameral legislature in six out of eleven provinces
#separate electorates for the representative s of depressed classes i.e. SC,ST, women and labour
#it abolished the council of India, and secretary of state for India was provided with a team of advisors