Rajendra Prasad
Constitution Day 2024: Epic story behind the drafting of India's charter
Debates over 167 days, 274 members, 36 lakh words -- that's what it took before the Constituent Assembly adopted the world's longest written constitution on this day in 1949. Every Article in the Constitution, which ran into 1.45 lakh words at the time, was debated by members of the Constituent Assembly. They sat for 11 sessions and 167 days over a period of two years, 11 months and 18 days to frame the Constitution. BR Ambedkar, regarded as the chief architect of the Constitution, was assisted by members of the drafting committee he chaired. India's first president Rajendra Prasad was the first person to sign the document 75 years ago. It is the largest written constitution in the world and the first edition was neither printed nor typed -- it was handwritten and calligraphed in both Hindi and English. According to facts available on the Lok Sabha website and analysis of Constituent Assembly debates by the think-tank PRS India, the Constitution's first copy was handwritten by Pre
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All India Radio to broadcast Dr Rajendra Prasad memorial lecture tomorrow
All India Radio will be broadcasting the annual Edition of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Memorial Lecture on Saturday, December 3, 2022 in memory of India's first President
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Rich tributes paid to Rajendra Prasad on his birth anniversary
The country's first President was born on December 3, 1884
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Modi pays tribute to Rajendra Prasad on his birth anniversary
Rajendra Prasad was born on Dec 3, 1884 in Siwan, Bihar and was the first president of the country
