OBJECTIVE RESOLUTION On December 13, 1946,Jawaharlal Nehru m | UPSC POLITY NOTES
OBJECTIVE RESOLUTION
On December 13, 1946,Jawaharlal Nehru moved the historic‘Objectives Resolution’ in the Assembly. It laid down fundamentals andphilosophy of the constitutional structure. It read:
“This Constituent Assembly declares its firm and solemn resolve to proclaim India as an Independent Sovereign Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution:
Wherein the territories that now comprise British India, the territories that now form the Indian States and such other parts of India as are outside India and the States as well as other territories as are willing to be constitut -ed into the independent sovereign India, shall be a Union of them all .
Wherein all power and authority of the sovereign independent India, its constitu -ent parts and organs of Government are derived from the people;
