It was in1934 that the idea of a constituent assembly for India was put forward for the first time by MR Roy.
In 1935 the indian national Congress (INC) for the first time officially demanded a constituent assembly to frame the constituent of India.
The demand was finally accepted in principle by the British government in what makes is known as the august offer of 1940.
The constituent assembly was constituted in November 1946 under the scheme formulated by the cabinet mission plan. The features of the scheme were.
The total strength of the constituent assembly was to be 389.
Of these 296 seats were to be allotted to British India and 93 seats to the princely seats.out of 296 seats allotted to the British India.296 member to be drawn from the eleven government provinces and four from the four chief commissioners provinces one from each.
Each provinces and princely state or group of states I'm case of smallove states was to be allottedrawn seats in proportion to their respective population roughly one seat was to be allotted for every million population.
Seats allocated to each British province were to be decided among the three principle communities Muslims Sikhs and general in proportion to their population.
