M. N. Roy was the first to demand a Constituent Assembly for India in 1934. A year later, the Indian National Congress made this a formal demand in a resolution that rejected a British proposal (‚¬ËœWhite Paper‚¬„¢) on constitutional reforms for India - which would later become the Government of India Act 1935. While the Congress was firm in its demand for a Constituent Assembly, it was nonetheless uncertain about the strategic upshot of this demand vis-a-vis getting the British to agree to India‚¬„¢s independence and the resolution of the Hindu-Muslim problem. Jawaharlal Nehru asked Gandhi to study the implications of the Constituent Assembly. In an article ‚¬ËœThe Only Way‚¬„¢ (Harijan, 1939), Gandhi confessed that when Nehru first included the demand in Congress resolutions, he was sceptical but ‚¬Ëœ. . . Hard facts have, however, made me a convert and, for that reason perhaps, more enthusiastic than Jawaharlal himself. For I seem to see in it [Costituent Assembly] a remedy, which Jawaharlal may not, for our communal and other distempers, besides being a vehicle for mass political and other education. . . ‚¬„¢. For Gandhi, a Constituent Assembly would not just produce a Constitution ‚¬Ëœindigenous to the country and truly and fully representing the will of the people‚¬„¢, but would also solve the ‚¬Ëœcommunal problem‚¬„¢ ‚¬€œ all communities would be represented in the Assembly ‚¬Ëœin their exact proportion‚¬„¢. Gandhi seemed convinced that the setting up of a Constituent Assembly was the ‚¬Ëœonly way out‚¬„¢ and urged Indian leaders to work towards this goal and steer the freedom movement in this direction: ‚¬Ëœ. . . All resources must, therefore, be exhausted to reach the Constituent Assembly before direct action is [s]ought. A stage may be reached when direct action may become the necessary prelude to the Constituent Assembly. . . '. Thus, we can say that Mahatma Gandhi said that the Constituent Assembly alone can produce a Constitution indigenous to the country and truly and fully representing the will of the people.