Who said the following words about Fundamental Rights: "A Fundamental Right should be looked upon, not from the point of view of any particular difficulty of that moment, but as something that you want to make permanent in this Constitution"?

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Correct — B, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru made this remark during the Constituent Assembly debates on Fundamental Rights, arguing that a Fundamental Right must not be shaped by the passing difficulty of the moment but should be treated as a lasting guarantee, written permanently into the Constitution.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) A Supreme Court judge known for expanding Fundamental Rights through judicial activism and PILs decades after the Constitution was framed — he was not a member of the Constituent Assembly and made no such remark during its debates.  (c) A Constituent Assembly member remembered for a different, equally famous line on Fundamental Rights — that they were 'a pledge to our people and a pact with the civilized world' — not this remark about permanence.  (d) Chairman of the Drafting Committee and the principal architect of the Fundamental Rights chapter, but this particular remark on treating rights as permanent (not tied to the moment's difficulty) is attributed to Nehru, not Ambedkar.

Concept: The Constituent Assembly debated Fundamental Rights at length, and several members are remembered for distinct one-line characterisations of why these rights matter. Nehru's contribution here was to argue that rights should not be diluted to solve a temporary problem — they had to be framed as permanent guarantees for the Constitution's life.

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