The Week India Stopped Waiting
The Constituent Assembly that reconvened on January 20, 1947 was not the same body that had adjourned a month earlier. Something had shifted—not in its composition, but in its resolve.
The previous session had ended with an unresolved question. Jawaharlal Nehru had moved the Objectives Resolution, a declaration of India's future as a sovereign republic. But Dr. M.R. Jayakar had moved to postpone the vote until the Muslim League joined. The recess was meant to give the League time to reconsider.
By January 20, the answer was clear. The League was not coming. The Assembly now faced a choice that would define everything that followed.
