The newly elected Labour government in Britain expressed in September 1945 its intention to establish a Constituent Assembly for India that would frame the Constitution of India; to make this happen, the Cabinet Mission was sent to India in March 1946. The mission had to deal with a big obstacle: there were fundamental disagreements between the two key political parties, the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, over the future of India. While the Muslim League wanted a new independent state of Pakistan to be constituted by the Muslim majority provinces of India, the Congress wanted a united India. The mission sought to promote an agreement between the Muslim League and the Congress at the Shimla Meeting. The Mission came up with its own ideas, known as the Cabinet Mission Plan.
- Constituent assembly was formed according to the proposal of the Cabinet Mission Plan.
- The idea of a Constituent Assembly was produced by M.N.Roy.
- Election was held in november 1946 to form a Constituent Assembly when there were 389 members.
- The recognized constituent assembly was had 299 members.
- The first sitting of the Constituent Assembly was held on 9 December 1946 with its president Dr.Sachchidananda Sinha.
- Dr.Rajendra prasad was elected as the permanent president after two days in 11 th december 1946.
- The process of making the constitution began on 13 December 1946 with the introduction of an "objective proposal" by Jawaharlal Nehru.
- B.N Rao was appointed the constitutional Advisor of the Assembly.
- The Constituent Assembly appointed 22 committe to deal with different tasks of constitution making.
- The seven member Drafting Commitee was appointed on 29 August 1947,with Dr. B.R Ambedkar as the chairman.
- Father of Indian Constitution - Dr. B.R Ambedkar
- The draft of the constitution was conferred to the Assembly on 8 th februvary 1948.
- The constitution of india was adopted on nov,26 1949 and it came into force on 26 th januvary 1950 that day the country became a republic.
- it take 2 years 11 months and 18 days to finish whole works.
- The indian artist who decorated the hand written copy of the constitution : Nandalal Bose.
- The constitution as adopted on november 26 ,1949, contains a Preamble, 395 Articles and 8 Schedules.
- At present the constitution contains Preamble , 458 Articles, 12 schedules , 25 parts and 98 Amendments.