B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was a Chairman of the following Committees.
A. House Committee
B. Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces
C. Adhoc Committee on Citizenship
D. Adhoc Committee on Supreme Co

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B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was a Chairman of the following Committees.
A. House Committee
B. Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces
C. Adhoc Committee on Citizenship
D. Adhoc Committee on Supreme Court

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Correct — option (1), Only A, B. B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, a Constituent Assembly member elected from the Madras Province and a senior Congress leader, chaired both the House Committee, which handled matters of accommodation and facilities for Assembly members, and the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, a seven-member committee formed to examine the political and administrative arrangements of the areas then under direct central control — Ajmer-Merwara, Coorg, Delhi, Panth-Piploda, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands — submitting its report to the Assembly on 21 October 1947. Both A and B are therefore accurate. C, the Adhoc Committee on Citizenship, and D, the Adhoc Committee on Supreme Court, were separate bodies chaired by other members — the Ad hoc Committee on Citizenship is associated with S. Varadachariar, and the Ad hoc Committee on the Supreme Court is likewise linked to Varadachariar's expertise as a former judge, not to Sitaramayya. Since Sitaramayya's confirmed chairmanships among these four are specifically the House Committee and the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, and not the citizenship or Supreme Court committees, the correct set is 'Only A, B'.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) This names the two committees Sitaramayya did not chair — the Adhoc Committee on Citizenship and the Adhoc Committee on Supreme Court — while omitting the House Committee and the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, which he actually did chair. It inverts the correct pairing entirely.  (c) This correctly includes A, the House Committee, which Sitaramayya did chair, but incorrectly adds D, the Adhoc Committee on Supreme Court, a body associated with a different Constituent Assembly member. It also omits B, the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, which is one of Sitaramayya's genuine chairmanships.  (d) This correctly includes B, the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, which Sitaramayya did chair, but incorrectly adds C, the Adhoc Committee on Citizenship, which he did not. It also omits A, the House Committee, another of his genuine chairmanships.

Concept: The Constituent Assembly relied on a very large number of committees, both major and minor, to divide up the enormous task of drafting the Constitution and managing the Assembly's own affairs. Some committees dealt with substantive constitutional questions — citizenship, the structure of the judiciary, fundamental rights — while others, like the House Committee, handled the Assembly's own practical, housekeeping needs, and still others, like the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, examined the specific administrative status of smaller centrally-administered territories that did not fit neatly into the provincial or princely-state categories. B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, a veteran Congress leader from Madras Province who later became the first Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, was entrusted with two such bodies: the House Committee and the Committee on Chief Commissioner's Provinces, the latter reporting on the administrative arrangements needed for Ajmer-Merwara, Coorg, Delhi, Panth-Piploda, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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