Every picture drawn in every Part of the Constitution of India has its own relevance and significance. The Part I of The Union and its Territory starts with the Seal of Mahanjadaro.
The seal emblems with the traditional Oxen worship in India. Part II, Citizenship starts with the scene reflecting the Vedic Tradition of Yajna tradition in India; Chapter III, Fundamental Rights starts with the win of Truth and faith over the evil power by depicting the picture of Lanka Vijay; Part IV, Directive Principles of State Policy reflects of the knowledge of Gita as exhorted by Lord Krishan and Part V, The Union depicts the picture of the Sangha established by Lord Buddha.
Part VI, The states in Part A.. shows the picture of Tirthankar Mahavir, picture of Nataraj in Part XII and so on. One cannot deny the significance of these pictures in relation to Indian culture and heritage in the context of the philosophy of the Indian Constitution.
Only two contemporary Indian icons of freedom struggle have been included in the Constitution. They are Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (two pics, one of Dandi March and other is Noakhali Hindu Carnage visit) and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (one pic of role of Netaji and Indian National Army in Indian Freedom Struggle). Two controversial pictures of Muslims viz Akbar and Tipu Sultan are also included in it.
The calligraphy in the original constitution was done by Prem Behari Narain Raizda. It was illuminated by Nandalal Bose and other artists, published by DehraDun, and photolithographed at the Survey of India Offices.
The Constituent Assembly , an elected body was formed through a Cabinet Mission Plan to frame the Constitution of India for the transfer of power from the British Parliament. The members of the Constituent Assembly were elected by the provincial assemblies by a single transferable-vote system of proportional representation and served as the nation’s first Parliament .
Rajendra Prasad was elected as the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly. For the first time it met on December 9, 1946, in the Constitution Hall now popularly referred to as Central Hall of Parliament House. 207 members were present who signed the register and submitted their credentials.
As of December 1947, the Assembly had 299 members: 229 members elected from 12 Indian Provinces and 70 members nominated from 29 Princely States. 15 women representatives were a part of the Assembly. Members proposed amendments by written submissions in advance to the chairman and debates used to be conducted at length.
It existed for approximately three years, till the first parliament of India after independence in 1947. The Assembly was not elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage, and Muslims and Sikhs received special representation as minorities. The Muslim League boycotted the Assembly after failing to prevent its creation.
A large part of the Constituent Assembly was drawn from the Congress Party in a single party environment , but included a wide and diversified opinions—from conservative industrialists to radical Marxists, to Hindu revivalists.
The total membership of the Constituent Assembly was 389: 292 were representatives of the states, 93 represented the princely states and four were from the chief commissioner provinces of Delhi, Ajmer-Merwara, Coorg (Near Madikeri) and British Baluchistan.
The Constituent Assembly (elected for an undivided India) met for the first time on 9 December 1946, reassembling on 14 August 1947 as a sovereign body and successor to the British parliament’s authority in India.
As a result of the partition, under the Mountbatten plan a separate Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was established on 3 June 1947. It completed its task of framing the Indian Constitution in 2 years and 11 months.
World’s longest written constitution had 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules at the time of commencement. Now the Constitution of India has 448 articles in 25 parts and 12 schedules. There are 101 amendments that have been made in the Indian constitution. The first item on the Agenda on 14th august 1947 was the singing of the first verse of VANDE MATARAM. listen to it all standing.
