PRESENTATION AND UNVEILING OF THE PORTRAIT OF MAHATMA GANDHI IN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA DEBATES (PROCEEDINGS)- VOLUME V Thursday, the 28th August 1947 PRESE NT ATION AND UNVEILING OF THE PORTRAIT OF MAHATMA GANDHI Mr. President: Mr. Pattani. Mr. A. P. Pattani (Western India States) : I this my happy privilege to place the following motion before the House- "Resolved that the Constituent Assembly of India do accept the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Sir Oswald Birley, bequeathed to the nation by Sir Prabha Shankar Pattani." It is not possible to express in words the happiness I feel today, standing in this Constituent Assembly Sir Oswald Birley y of my country, to discharge a trust and fulfil the wishes of my late father. The portrait that is to be unveiled presently, was painted by the great portrait painter,, in England during the Second Round Table Conference, and my father purchased it. I may inform the House that Sir Oswald had painted that portrait for himself and lie agreed to part with it, because my, father wan