As the Congress holds its working committee meeting here, AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday recalled the party's Ramgarh session in 1940, when a resolution committing to the creation of a Constituent Assembly to frame a Constitution was passed, and took a swipe at the BJP-RSS.

Noting that the Extended Congress Working Committee was meeting in Patna, Ramesh said it was at its Ramgarh session held in mid-March 1940 that the CWC passed its landmark resolution that, for the first time, formally committed the Indian National Congress to the creation of a Constituent Assembly to frame and adopt a Constitution for a free and independent India.

"The rest is, as they say, history, including the bitter opposition of the organisation, now celebrating its centenary, to the Constitut

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