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On which date did Nehru introduce the Objectives Resolution in the Assembly?Read the answer and worked solution →Who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was elected president of the Constituent Assembly of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which party boycotted the Constituent Assembly while pressing for Pakistan?Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of Constituent Assembly members were also Congress members?Read the answer and worked solution →Who, as Chief Draughtsman, turned complex proposals into clear legal language?Read the answer and worked solution →How many sessions did the Constituent Assembly hold, sitting over 165 days?Read the answer and worked solution →Which member worked mostly behind the scenes, reconciling opposing views and drafting reports?Read the answer and worked solution →On whose advice was Ambedkar asked to join the Union Cabinet as law minister?Read the answer and worked solution →The Oath of the Tennis Court, recalled by Nehru, belongs to which country's revolution?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Nehru say any system of government in India must fit in with?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Communist member said the Assembly was working British plans as the British wished?Read the answer and worked solution →Who called separate electorates a poison that had entered the body politic?Read the answer and worked solution →Who argued that separate electorates would be suicidal to minorities themselves?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Pant, around what must all loyalties in a democracy be centred?Read the answer and worked solution →Whom did the socialist N.G. Ranga call the real minorities of the country?Read the answer and worked solution →Which gifted orator represented the tribals in the Constituent Assembly?Read the answer and worked solution →Which step did the Assembly recommend for the lowest castes?Read the answer and worked solution →J. Nagappa said the Depressed Castes formed roughly what share of the population?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Madras member demanded immediate removal of social disabilities rather than safeguards?Read the answer and worked solution →Which member from Bombay demanded justice for women, not reserved seats or privileges?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three lists of subjects did the Draft Constitution provide for?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Article let the Centre take over a state administration on the Governor's recommendation?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the fiscal scheme, which proceeds were retained wholly by the Centre?Read the answer and worked solution →Which member from Madras most eloquently defended the rights of the states?Read the answer and worked solution →Which member said that the Centre should be made as strong as possible?Read the answer and worked solution →After Partition, the Constitution showed a bias towards the rights of whom?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Gandhi describe the ideal Hindustani?Read the answer and worked solution →By the 1930s, which language had the Congress accepted as the national language?Read the answer and worked solution →Hindustani was a blend of which two languages?Read the answer and worked solution →

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On which date did Nehru introduce the Objectives Resolution in the Assembly?

  1. 26 November 1949
  2. 22 January 1947
  3. 9 December 1946
  4. 13 December 1946
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Correct answer: D. 13 December 1946

Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution four days after the Assembly first met, on 13 December 1946.

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Who chaired the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India?

  1. K.M. Munshi
  2. Rajendra Prasad
  3. Vallabhbhai Patel
  4. B.R. Ambedkar
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Correct answer: D. B.R. Ambedkar

Ambedkar, as law minister, was made Chairman of the Drafting Committee and piloted the draft through the Assembly.

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Who was elected president of the Constituent Assembly of India?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Rajendra Prasad
  3. B.R. Ambedkar
  4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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Correct answer: B. Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad was chosen as the Assembly's president, with Harendra Coomar Mookerjee as vice-president.

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