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IMPORTANT FACTS

1. Elephant was adopted as the symbol (seal) of the Constituent Assembly.

2. Sir B.N. Rau was appointed as the constitutional advisor (Legal advisor) to the Constituent Assembly.

3. H.V.R. Iyengar was the Secretary to the Constituent Assembly.

4. S.N. Mukerjee was the chief draftsman of the constitution in the Constituent Assembly.

5. Prem Behari Narain Raizada was the calligrapher of the Indian Constitution. The original constitution was handwritten by him in a flowing italic style.

6. The original version was beautified and decorated by artists from Shantiniketan including Nand Lal Bose and Beohar Rammanohar Sinha.

7. Beohar Rammanohar Sinha illuminated, beautified and ornamented the original Preamble calligraphed by Prem Behari Narain Raizada.

8. The calligraphy of the Hindi version of the original constitution was done by Vasant Krishan Vaidya and elegantly decorated and illuminated by Nand Lal Bose.