15 Prominent Members of Constituent Assembly

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra (October

1920 25 October 2004) was an active
member of Constituent assembly. He took
active part in the Indian Independence
Movement and was imprisoned in
connection with the Quit India
Movement during 19421943. He was
associated with various social and political
organisations. His political career began
with membership of the Constituent
Assembly of India between 1950-52. He
also represented the State of Bihar in
the Rajya Sabha from December 1962 to
April 1966 and again from April 1966 to
March 1971.
Binodanand Jha
Binodanand Jha (born April 17, 1900),
also known as Pandit Binodanand
Jha,was an Indian politician originally from
the district of Deoghar (Baidyanathdham
Deoghar) now in Jharkhand.He was
the Chief Minister of Bihar from February
1961 to October 1963. He was elected to
the 5th Lok Sabha, lower house of
the Parliament of India from
the Darbhanga constituency of Bihar in
1971.He was a member of the Constituent
Assembly of India in 1948 from Bihar. [5]
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ( 31 October
1875 15 December 1950) was an
Indian barrister and statesman, one of the
leaders of the Indian National
Congress and one of the founding fathers
of the Republic of India. He was a social
leader who played a leading role in the
country's struggle for independence and
guided its integration into a united,
independent nation. Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel played a decisive role in the
Constituent Assembly and remained the
moving spirit behind some of the landmark
provisions of Indian principles.
He played an important role in the
selection of members of the drafting
committee. He took a strong stand for or
against Jawaharlal Nehru on key issues
such as fundamental rights, the position of
the prime minister, the election procedure
of the President and the status of Kashmir.
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889

27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister
of India and a central figure in Indian
politics before and after independence. He
emerged as the paramount leader of
the Indian independence movement under
the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled
India from its establishment as an
independent nation in 1947 until his death
in 1964. He is considered to be the
architect of the modern Indian nationstate: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and
democratic republic.
Hansa Jivraj
Hansa Jivraj Mehta served in the
constituent assembly from 1946-1949.
She was a member of the Fundamental
rights sub-committee, the advisory
committee and the provincial constitutional
committee.
Her appointment to the constituent

assembly came from Bombay, where she
was a member of the legislative council.
In the constituent assembly, she made a
case for rights of Dalits.
Satyanarayana Moturi
Satyanarayana Moturi (2 February 1902
6 March 1995) was an Indian freedom
fighter alongside Mohandas Gandhi until
1947 and then a member of
the Constituent Assembly of India which
drafted the Indian Constitution. He was
instrumental in making Hindi an official
language in the Indian Constitution, while
tolerating the other major Indian
languages. He devoted his later life to
helping spread Hindi in South India.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891
6 December 1956, was an
Indian jurist, economist, politician and soci
al reformer who inspired the Dalit Buddhist
movement and campaigned against social
discrimination.
Upon India's independence on 15 August
1947, the new Congress-led government
invited Ambedkar to serve as the nation's
first Law Minister, which he accepted.
On 29 August, he was appointed
Chairman of the Constitution Drafting
Committee, and was appointed by the
Assembly to write India's new
Constitution.
The text prepared by Ambedkar provided
constitutional guarantees and protections
for a wide range of civil liberties for
individual citizens, including freedom of
religion, the abolition of untouchability, and
the outlawing of all forms of
discrimination.
Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha (Singh) (18
June 1887 5 July 1957), was an
Indian statesman who was the first Deputy
Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of the
Indian state of Bihar (19461957). [2]He
was also a Member of the Constituent
Assembly of India, which was elected to
write the Constitution of India and served
in its first Parliament as an independent
nation.
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 28
February 1963) was the first President of
the Republic of India. An Indian political
leader, lawyer by. Prasad served one term
as President of the Indian National
Congress from 1934 to 1935 upon
independence in 1947, Prasad was
elected president of the Constituent
Assembly of India, which prepared
the Constitution of India and served as its
provisional parliament.
When India became a Republic in 1950,
Prasad was elected its first President by
the Constituent Assembly. As President,
Prasad established a tradition of nonpartisanship and independence for the
office-bearer, and retired from Congress
party politics. Although a ceremonial head
of state, Prasad encouraged the
development of education in India and
advised the Nehru government on several
occasions.
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee alternatively
spelt as Syama Prasad Mookerjee (6 July
1901 23 June 1953) was an Indian
politician, barrister and academician, who
served as Minister for Industry and Supply
in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's
cabinet. He was also a prominent member
of constituent assembly.
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (2 February 1889
6 February 1964) was the health minister
in the Indian Cabinet for ten years after
India's independence from the British
Raj in 1947. She was an eminent
Gandhian, a freedom fighter, and a social
activist.She was also a member of the
Constituent Assembly,the body that
framed the constitution of India.
member of the J.V.P. Committee (Jawaharlal

Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and Pattabhi)
which formally rejected the reorganization of
states on linguistic lines. Prior to this he
served as a member in the Constituent
Assembly, in 1952 he was elected to Rajya
Sabha
Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer

Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer (14 May 1883 3
October 1953) was an Indian lawyer and
member of the Constituent Assembly of
India, which was responsible for framing
the Constitution of India. He also served as
the Advocate Generalof Madras State from
1929 to 1944.
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (27 November
1888 27 February 1956) popularly known
as Dadasaheb was an independence
activist, the President (from 1946 to 1947) of
the Central Legislative Assembly, then
Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of
India, and later the first Speaker of the Lok
Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of
India.
Bhogaraju P.S.
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya (24
November 1880 17 December 1959) was
an Indian independence activist and political
leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh. He
ran successfully for Congress presidency in
1948, winning with the support of Jawaharlal
Nehru, the Prime Minister of India. He was a
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Harendra Coomar Mookerjee (18871956), ,
was the Vice-president of the Constituent
Assembly of India for drafting
the Constitution of India before Partition of
India, and the first Governor of West
Bengal after India became a republic with
partition into India and Pakistan.[1][2][3]
He was an educationalist, prominent
Christian leader of Bengal, and was the
chairman of the Minority rights committee
and Provincial constitution committee of the
Constituent Assembly.

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Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra (October

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889

Her appointment to the constituent

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

member of the J.V.P. Committee (Jawaharlal

Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

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