Mahatma Gandhi was a national leader of great stature. Many of his followers were part of constituent assembly. Mahatma Gandhi believed that strengthening Village Panchayats is a means of effective decentralization. Yet the subject of local government including panchayats did not receive adequate importance in the Original Constitution of 1950. The main reason attributed to this is?

• A.  Village panchayats were seen as backward and regressive
• B.  Mass illiteracy at ground level especially at village level
• C.  Extreme localism up to level of villages was seen as a threat to unity and integration of the nation
• D.  Gandhians were outnumbered by neo-liberals in constituent assembly