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citizen, justice, equality, freedom and assured “adequate safeguards for
minorities, backward and tribal areas, depressed, and backward classes”.
• Objective resolution outlined the ideals of constitution and provided frame-work for
constitution making.
• Nehru referred to American and French constitution and event associated with its
making. He said that we are not just going to copy them, instead he said it is
important to learn from these, so mistakes can be avoided.
• Nehru said the system of government to be established in India had to fit in with
the temper of our people and should be acceptable to them.
• The objective of the Indian constitution would be to fuse the liberal ideas of
democracy with socialist idea of economic justice, and re-adapt and rework on all
these ideas within the Indian context.

The Aspiration of the People:

• Somnath Lahiri, a communist member said ‘we Indians need to be free from
British influences’. He further said Constituent Assembly was British-made and
was working with British plan.
• Nehru said, in his response that it is true, British government played role in
Assembly’s birth and attached conditions to the function of assembly. But, he also
said, we have met because of strength of the people behind us and we shall go as
far as people wish to go alongwith us.
• He believed that members of assembly were elected by provincial legislature and
provincial legislature is elected by Indian people. So here, we represent our
country men.
• The constituent assembly was expected to express the aspirations of people.
Democracy, equality and justice were ideals that people of India aspires for.

Rights of People:

• The way of defining the rights of people was quiet different. Different demands
were made by different groups of people. These demands, ideas, opinions were
debated, discussed and conflicting idea were reconcilled and then consensus was
made to take collective decision.

The Problem with Separate Electorates:

• Intense debate took place in assembly on the issue of separate electorate. B.
Pocker Bahadur gave powerful presentation for continuation for separate
electorate. He said electorate will help in giving minorities representation in the
political system and in governance of the country. The need of Muslim could not
be understood by non-Muslims-he further said.
• Many nationalist leaders saw separate electorates system as a tool to divide
people on the basis of religion and they also believed that this idea was finally
culminated in partition of the country. Therefore many leaders were against of it.