Who said, "The Constituent Assembly alone can produce a Constitution indigenous to the country and truly and fully representing the will of the people"?
- (a)Mahatma Gandhi
- (b)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
- (c)Jawaharlal Nehru
- (d)Annie Besant
Correct — A, Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi consistently held that only a Constituent Assembly, elected on adult franchise, could produce a Constitution that was truly indigenous to India and fully represented the will of its people — as opposed to one framed or imposed through British-controlled processes.
- (b)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar — Ambedkar chaired the Assembly's Drafting Committee and shaped the Constitution's actual text, but this particular argument for why a Constituent Assembly alone could do the job is Gandhi's.
- (c)Jawaharlal Nehru — Nehru moved the Objectives Resolution inside the Assembly, but this specific formulation about an 'indigenous' Constitution representing the people's will is attributed to Gandhi.
- (d)Annie Besant — An early Home Rule Movement leader, not associated with this argument for a Constituent Assembly.
Mahatma Gandhi argued that only a Constituent Assembly, elected on adult franchise, could produce a Constitution that was genuinely 'indigenous' and represented the will of the whole country, rather than one negotiated with, or imposed by, the British Parliament or a limited electorate. This framing became central to the Congress's demand for a Constituent Assembly through the 1930s and 1940s.
MPPSC likes attribution questions like this — students default to Nehru or Ambedkar since they're more associated with the Assembly's actual proceedings, but the demand for the Assembly itself has its own distinct lineage of voices, starting with M. N. Roy's 1934 proposal.
- Gandhi argued only a Constituent Assembly (on adult franchise) could give India a genuinely indigenous, representative Constitution.
- The idea of a Constituent Assembly for India was first mooted by M. N. Roy in 1934.
- The Indian National Congress formally endorsed the demand for a Constituent Assembly in 1935.
- The Cabinet Mission Plan (1946) finally provided the mechanism that created the actual Constituent Assembly.
- Confusing 'who first proposed the idea' (M. N. Roy) with 'who articulated this particular philosophical justification' (Gandhi, in this quote)
- Defaulting to Ambedkar or Nehru for any Constituent-Assembly-related quote, since they're more visibly tied to its actual proceedings
'Who said' attribution questions on the Constituent Assembly and Constitution-making are a recurring MPPSC trivia-style item.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The idea of a Constituent Assembly for India was first put forward by:
- (a)M. N. Roy
- (b)Mahatma Gandhi
- (c)Jawaharlal Nehru
- (d)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Answer(a) M. N. Roy, in 1934.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Who was appointed Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly?
- (a)Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- (b)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
- (c)Jawaharlal Nehru
- (d)Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer(b) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.