The Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee of the Constituent Assembly was headed by:

Kripalani. The Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee was one of the sub-committees of the Advisory Committee of the Constituent Assembly, and it was chaired by Acharya J.B. Kripalani.

Structure of the committee system:

• The Constituent Assembly set up an Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities and Tribal and Excluded Areas.
• This Advisory Committee worked through several sub-committees.

The Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee, headed by J.B. Kripalani, prepared the draft list of rights.

The Minorities Sub-Committee was headed by H.C. Mukherjee.

Other sub-committees dealt with tribal and excluded areas in the North-East and in other parts of India.

Work of the Sub-Committee:

• It studied the rights in the constitutions of other countries, especially the United States, Ireland and the Weimar Republic of Germany.
• It divided rights into justiciable and non-justiciable categories.
• The justiciable rights later became the Fundamental Rights in Part III.
• The non-justiciable ones became the Directive Principles in Part IV.

Members of the Sub-Committee:

Members included B.R. Ambedkar, K.M. Munshi, Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, Minoo Masani, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and K.T. Shah.

About J.B. Kripalani:

• Acharya Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani was a Gandhian freedom fighter.
• He was President of the Indian National Congress in 1947, at the time of independence.
• He later left the Congress and founded the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party.
• His wife, Sucheta Kripalani, became India's first woman Chief Minister, in Uttar Pradesh.
• In 1963 he moved the first no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Rajendra Prasad was President of the Constituent Assembly and headed several of its committees.
• ✗Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar was a member of the Drafting Committee.

H.C. Mukherjee headed the Minorities Sub-Committee.