When Rajendra Prasad flagged ‘two regrets’ in final speech before adoption of Constitution

Prasad said the posterity would justice the Constitution of India, but added that portion radical successful powerfulness with quality and integrity would marque adjacent a defective constitution enactment well, adjacent a bully constitution would not beryllium capable to payment a state if those successful powerfulness lacked these qualities. “After all, a constitution similar a instrumentality is simply a lifeless thing. It acquires beingness due to the fact that of the men who power and run it,” helium said.

Prasad shone airy connected the workout done which the Constitution was drawn up, giving absorbing details adjacent arsenic helium thanked members, officials and the full unit down to the peons for accomplishing it.

He told the Constituent Assembly that successful the 3 years that had passed successful its workout to draught the Constitution, expenses incurred up to November 22, 1949, were Rs 63,96,729.

Prasad said determination was a tremendous nationalist enthusiasm for the workout that would springiness the Constitution to a federation whose colonisation was much than the full Europe minus Russia.

The Assembly held its archetypal league connected December 9, 1946, attended by 207 members. About 53,000 visitors were since allowed introduction to the galleries of the Assembly to witnesser the making of the Constitution.

Prasad pointed retired that the law strategy afloat integrated the princely states and that determination would not beryllium immoderate differences betwixt the princely states and the provinces that were nether the British rule. He said the Assembly brought respective princes connected board, adding that the efforts made by them on with Sardar Patel ensured that the princely states were merged with the Indian Union wrong 3 years.

Making of Constitution

Prasad past summed up the process by which the Constitution had been framed. The archetypal measurement was to follow its presumption of notation by mode of an Objectives Resolution, which was moved by Jawaharlal Nehru. It was this solution from which the Preamble of the Constitution springs, helium noted.

Once the Preamble was successful place, Prasad said, “It (the Assembly) proceeded to name a fig of Committees to woody with antithetic aspects of the law problem… Several of these had arsenic their Chairman either Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru oregon Sardar Patel to whom frankincense goes the recognition for the fundamentals of our Constitution.”

These Committees, Prasad noted, prepared reports that were past discussed by the Assembly, and “their recommendations were adopted connected the ground of which the draught of the Constitution had to beryllium prepared”. B N Rau, a law expert, prepared this draft.

“The Assembly past appointed the Drafting Committee (chaired by B R Ambedkar) which worked connected the archetypal draught prepared by B N Rau and produced the draught Constitution which was considered by the Assembly astatine large magnitude astatine the 2nd speechmaking stage,” Prasad said.

“As Dr Ambedkar pointed out, determination were not little than 7635 amendments of which 2473 amendments were moved… It was not lone the members of the Drafting Committee who were giving their adjacent attraction to the Constitution, but different members were vigilant and scrutinising the draught successful each its details… In the result, the draught Constitution has accrued successful size, and by the clip it has been passed, it has travel to person 395 Articles and 8 Schedules, alternatively of the 243 Articles and 13 Schedules of the archetypal draught of Mr B N Rau,” helium added.

Prasad congratulated the members of the Drafting Committee for their devotion and zeal, adding that Ambedkar did a precise bully occupation contempt his indifferent health.