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Post by Rishi Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:20 pm

Similarly, if we talk to any expert on the Constitution and the making of it, we’ll hear this: “Why are we keeping this myth and falsehood alive that Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Constitution? True, his contribution as the chairman of the drafting committee is unique and praiseworthy. But we shouldn’t forget that the seven-member committee had other stalwarts such as Alladi Krishnaswamy Ayyar (who were hailed in glowing terms by Ambedkar himself as “men who were bigger, better and more competent than myself”). It was also assisted by a great jurist like B.N. Rau, who served as the main advisor to the Constituent Assembly in preparing the Constitution. Above all, we shouldn’t forget that neither Ambedkar nor the committee he headed wrote the Constitution on their own. They weren’t independent formulators of its defining provisions. They simply followed, and faithfully encapsulated, the intense debates in the Constituent Assembly that went on for nearly three years. Therefore, the credit for constitution-making should be shared with other leaders of the freedom movement, especially Dr Rajendra Prasad, who was the president of the Constituent Assembly, and Nehru, who was the prime minister and steered many of the important debates in assembly.”

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