Facts to remember - Constituent Assembly |
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| The constituent assembly was formed on the recommendation of the Cabinet Missionwhich visited India in 1946. |
| The Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9 December, 1946 in the Constitution Hall which is now known as the Central Hall of Parliament House. |
| Mr. Sachchidanand Sinha was elected provisional chairman of the assembly. |
| Dr Rajendra Prasad later became the permanent chairman of the constituent assembly. |
| On 13 December, 1946, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution which resolved to proclaim India as an Independent Sovereign Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution. |
| The Constituent Assembly took almost three years (two years, eleven months and seventeen days to be precise) to complete its historic task of drafting the Constitution for Independent India. |
| The Constituent Assembly held eleven sessions covering a total of 165 days. |
| India is governed in terms of the Constitution, which was adopted on 26 November, 1949, which was the last day of the Eleventh session of the Constituent Assembly. |
| This date finds mention in the Preamble to the Indian Constitution thus IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION. |
| The honourable members appended their signatures to the constitution on 24 January, 1950. |
| The Constitution of India came into force on 26 January, 1950. On that day, the Constituent Assembly ceased to exist, transforming itself into the Provisional Parliament of India until a new Parliament was constituted in 1952 |
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