- sachidananda Sinha was the first President (chairman of the Assembly) of the Constituent Assembly when it met on December 9, 1946.
- RajendraPrasad became the President of the Constituent Assembly, and later became the first President of India.
- The Vice President of the Constituent Assembly was Professor Harendra Coomar Mookherjee, former Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University and a prominent Christian from Bengal who also served as the Chairman of the Minorities Committee of the Constituent Assembly. He was appointed governor of West Bengal after India became a republic.
- On 29th August 1947 the Constituent Assembly appointed a Drafting Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr.Ambedkar with the following members: N.Gopalasamy Iyangar, Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, K.M Munshi, Mohammed Sadayathulla, B.L Mitter (later replace bey Mr.MadhavaRao), Dr.D.P. Khaitan (replaced on death, by T.T krishnamachari).
