Last Updated on 20 October 2025 by Sandesh Hiwale
Dr. Rajendra Prasad, President of the Constituent Assembly of India, has expressed his views about Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Father of the Constitution of India. Rajendra Prasad acknowledged that Dr. Ambedkar had performed the task of a “skilful pilot of the constitution”. – Rajendra Prasad on Ambedkar.
Dr Rajendra Prasad on Dr Ambedkar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) served as the first president of India from 1950 to 1962. Before that and upon independence in 1947, Prasad was elected as President of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946 to 1950), and served as its provisional Parliament.
India’s most Educated and intelligent man, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India, which prepared the Constitution of India, and is considered the Father of the Indian Constitution. Dr. Rajendra Prasad acknowledged that Dr. B.R. Ambedkar had performed the task of a “skilful pilot of the constitution”.
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1st President’s views about Babasaheb
In the Constituent Assembly of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad said:
“Sitting in the Chair and watching the proceedings from day to day, I have realised as nobody else could have, with what zeal and devotion the members of the Drafting Committee and especially its Chairman, Dr. Ambedkar in spite of his indifferent health, have worked. We could never make a decision which was or could be ever so right as when we put him on the Drafting Committee and made him its Chairman. He has not only justified his selection but has added luster to the work which he has done. In this connection, it would be invidious to make any distinction as among the other members of the Committee. I know they have all worked with the same zeal and devotion as its Chairman, and they deserve the thanks of the country.”
— Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of Constituent Assembly of India
November 26, 1949
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