Arun Shourie has emphasized; Of the seven members who were selected for the Drafting Committee, only one was a Congressman. Ambedkar, who had all along opposed the Congress and denounced the leaders who were now in control, was elected chairman of the committee. A scholar records that of the original text, 220 articles had been completely replaced and the wording of another 120 had been materially altered… Many provisions were altered in the most basic ways by the interventions of persons whose names few of us would even have heard of since. (Shourie 1997; pp. 448, 449)
