9-December... First meeting of Constituent Assembly of India...

The first meeting of Constituent Assembly of India was held on this day (9-dec) in 1946...

Constituent Assembly of India was formed under the Cabinet Mission Plan  proposed by British Government to draft and adopt the Constitution of India, which would serve as the foundational document for the new Independent nation...

Led by Dr.B R Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, and other leaders, the Constituent Assembly took approximately two years, eleven months and seventeen days to draft and adopt the Constitution...

Constitution of India framed by the Constituent Assembly of India was commemorated by India Post with the issuance of a 10-rupees postage stamp in 2020...

The text in Hindi on the stamp translates to... 

              भारत का संविधान - Constitution of India
              सत्यमेव जयते - Satyamev Jayate
              भारत - India

This stamp can be collected under the themes: 


(a) Constitution...
(b) National Emblem...
(c) Parliament building...
(d) National Motto... 

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