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.
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 |