Who said in the Constituent Assembly: 'I take you all at your word that now we are going to start a new chapter, ... where no one would be neglected.'
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Jaipal Singh
Option (1) Jaipal Singh — Correct. Jaipal Singh said this while welcoming the Objectives Resolution. Speaking for the tribals, he took Nehru at his word that no one would be neglected.
Option (2) Hansa Mehta — Incorrect. Hansa Mehta of Bombay also spoke of equality, but she demanded social, economic and political justice for women.
Option (3) Dakshayani Velayudhan — Incorrect. Dakshayani Velayudhan of Madras asked for the moral safeguard and the removal of the social disabilities of Harijans.
Option (4) J. Nagappa — Incorrect. J. Nagappa of Madras spoke for the Depressed Castes and said they were prepared to suffer no more.
NCERT (2026-27): “3.2 “We will need much more than this Resolution” … “... as an Adibasi, I am not expected to understand the legal intricacies of the Resolution. But my common sense tells me that every one of us should march in that road to freedom and fight together. Sir, if there is any group of Indian people that has been shabbily treated it is my people. They have been disgracefully treated, neglected for the last 6,000 years. … The whole history of my people is one of continuous exploitation and dispossession by the non-aboriginals of India punctuated by rebellions and disorder, and yet I take Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at his word. I take you all at your word that now we are going to start a new chapter, a new chapter of independent India where there is equality of opportunity, where no one would be neglected.” |