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COMPOSITION OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
The Constituent Assembly was cons -tituted 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 states.Out of 296 seats allotted to the British India,292 members were to be drawn from the 11 governors’ provinces 2 and four from the four Chief Commissioners’ provinces one from each.
Each province and princely state (or group of states in case of small states) were tobe allotted 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 divided among the three principal communities–Muslims, Sikhs and General (all except Muslims and Sikhs), in proportion to their pop -ulation.
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