Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). **Assertion (A):** The Constituent Assembly took almost three years (specifically 2 years, 11 months, and 18 days) to complete its historic task of drafting the Constitution. **Reason (R):** The framers of the Constitution went through the constitutions of about 60 countries and the draft constitution was considered for 114 days. Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
Options:
- A: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- B: A is true but R is false.
- C: Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
- D: A is false but R is true.
Related Practice Questions:
- Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The Cabinet Mission Plan of $1946$ officially recommended the immediate partition of India into two separate sovereign nations. Reason (R): The Mission concluded that a separate state of Pakistan would not solve the communal minority problem and would create serious defense and communication complications. In the context of the above statements, which of the following is correct?
- Who was the Premier of Bengal during the Direct Action Day riots in $August \text{ } 1946$$, who faced severe criticism for his administration's failure to control the violence?
- In which of the following districts of East Bengal did Mahatma Gandhi spend nearly $4$ months from $November \text{ } 1946$ to $March \text{ } 1947$ to restore communal harmony after the outbreak of horrific riots?
- Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The Muslim League withdrew its acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan on $29 \text{ July } 1946$ and passed the 'Direct Action' resolution. Reason (R): Jawaharlal Nehru's press conference on $10 \text{ July } 1946$ stated that the Congress was completely free to change or modify the Cabinet Mission Plan in the Constituent Assembly. In the context of the above statements, which of the following is correct?