Q – “Constituent Assembly was Congress and Congress was India” who said this?
(a) Austin
(b) C.R. Attlee
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Lord Mountbatten
U.P.U.D.A/L.D.A. (Pre) 2013
Ans. (a)
Explanation – The above statement that “Constituent Assembly was Congress and Congress was India” was made by the famous constitutional expert Granville Austin.
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Dominated by Congress The critics charged that the Constituent Assembly was dominated by the Congress party. Granville Austin, an American constitutional expert, remarked: ‘The constituent Assembly was a one-party body in an essentially oneparty country. The Assembly was the Congress and the Congress was India’. 1 Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution — Cornnerstone of a Nation. 1 Source : Indian Polity – M Laxmikanth |