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Who among the following warned his colleagues that the Constituent Assembly was British made and was working the British should like to be worked out?


(A) Somnath Lahiri

(B) B. R. Ambedkar

(C) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

(D) B.N. Rau

[This Question has been asked in UPSC CAPF(ACs) Examination, 2021]

Answer: Right answer is Option (A) : Somnath Lahiri.


Explanation:

Shri Somnath Lahiri, a Communist member, in the debate on RESOLUTION RE. AIMS AND OBJECTSof Constituent Assembly on 19th Dec, 1946 , had said: 

..............Well, the Interim Government has not brought peace nor freedom to our ,country. Similarly, whether the Congress is inside this British-made. Constituent Assembly and the Muslim League is out or whether, the Congress and the Muslim League are both inside this British-made Constituent Assembly and working the British plans as the British should like it to be worked out, then also the same thing will follow, viz., the quarrelling that is there to-day in the country, will only get more intensified inside this Assembly also. That is all and nothing else Therefore, Sir, I am not sorry that the League is not here but I am only sorry that the Congress also has not gone out leaving the plan to stew in its own juice...........

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