Correct Option: C

Jawaharlal Nehru, gave this following speech as India’s first Prime Minister to the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi at midnight on August 14, 1947: “At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.”