Q – Who of the following presented the Objectives Resolution?
(a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
(b) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(d) Dr. C. D. Deshmukh
U.P.PC.S.(Mains) 2007
Ans. (b)
| The Constituent Assembly duly opened on the appointed day Monday, the ninth day of December, 1946 at eleven in the morning.
The historic Objectives Resolution was moved in the Constituent Assembly by Nehru, on 13 December 1946, after it had been in session for some days. The beautifully worded draft of the Objectives Resolution cast the horoscope, so to say, of the Sovereign Democratic Republic that India was to be. The resolution envisaged a federal polity with the residuary powers vesting in the autonomous units and sovereignty belonging to the people. “Justice, social, economic and political; Equality of status, of opportunity and before the law; Freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation, association and action” were to be guaranteed to all the people along with “adequate safeguards” to “minorities, backward and tribal areas and depressed and other backward classes”. Thus, the Resolution gave to the Assembly its guiding principles and the philosophy that was to permeate its tasks of constitution making. It was finally adopted by the Assembly on 22 January 1947 and later took the form of the Preamble to the Constitution. Source : Our Constitution – Subhash C. Kashyap |