Indian Polity: Criticism of the Constituent Assembly

Criticism of the Constituent Assembly

• Every great step in the history is followed by the criticism of the same. In the same manner, the Constituent Assembly was also criticized.  Some of the points included:

• The Constituent Assembly was not a representative body as its members were not directly elected by the people of India.

• As the Constituent Assembly was created on the proposals of the British Government, some people didn’t consider it as a Sovereign body.

• Some compared it to the framers of the American Constitution, who constituted the American Constitution in 4 months, stating that the constituent assembly consumed too much time.

• Granville Austin even stated that “The Constituent Assembly was a one-party body”.

• Critics stated it as a “Lawyer-Politician Domination.”

• And above all, some even named it as a “Hindu Dominated Constituent Assembly”.