Identify the correct women members of the Constituent Assembly:
(A) Ammu Swaminathan
(B) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(C) Annie Besant
(D) Leela Ray
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (D) only
(A) Ammu Swaminathan — Correct. She was a woman member of the Constituent Assembly from Madras (General) and signed its register on 9 December 1946.
(B) Vijayalakshmi Pandit — Correct. She was a woman member from the United Provinces (General) and signed the register on 17 December 1946.
(C) Annie Besant — Incorrect. Annie Besant was an important leader of the Congress during the national movement; she was among the leaders present at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University in February 1916, where Gandhiji made his first major public appearance. She was not a member of the Constituent Assembly. The woman member named Annie was Annie Mascarene of the Travancore and Cochin Union, a different person.
(D) Leela Ray — Correct. She was a woman member from West Bengal (General) and signed the register on 9 December 1946.
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