404 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Clause 2
The provisions for the Scheduled Castes shall not be altered, amended or Mode of Amendment abrogated except in the following manner : of safeguards. (For explanation, see page 428). Any amendment or abrogation of Section IV of Article II or any part thereof relating to the Scheduled Castes shall only be made by a Resolution passed in the manner prescribed below by the more Popular Chamber of the Union Legislature :
(i) Any proposal for amendment or abrogation shall be initiated in the form of a Resolution in the more Popular Chamber of the Union Legislature.
(ii) No such Resolution shall be moved—
( a ) unless 25 years have elapsed after the Constitution has come into operation and has been worked ; and
( b ) unless six months’ notice has been given to the House by the mover of his intention to move such a Resolution.
(iii) On the passing of such a Resolution, the Legislature shall be dissolved and a new election held.
(iv) The original Resolution in the form in which it was passed by the previous Legislature shall be moved afresh in the same House of the newly elected Union Legislature.
(v) The Resolution shall not be deemed to have been carried unless it is passed by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the House and also two-thirds of members of the Scheduled Castes who have been returned through separate electorates.
PART IV—P ROTECTION OF S CHEDULED C ASTES IN THE I NDIAN S TATES
Safeguards for Scheduled Castes in Indian States. (For explanation, see page 428)
The Constitution of the United States shall provide that the admission of the Indian States into the Union shall be subject to the following condition :
“All provisions relating to the Scheduled Castes contained in Section IV of Article II
of the Constitution of the United States of India shall be extended to the Scheduled
Castes in the Indian States. Such a provision in the Constitution of an Indian States
shall be a condition precedent for its admission into the Union.”
PART V—I NTERPRETATION
I. For the purposes of Article II the Scheduled Castes, as defined in the Government Scheduled Castes of India Scheduled Caste Order, 1936, issued under the Government a Minority. (For explanation, of India Act, 1935, shall be deemed to be a minority. see page 428)
II. For the purposes of Article II a Caste which is a Scheduled Caste in one
Scheduled Castes and State shall be treated as Scheduled Caste in all States of change of Domicile. the Union. (For explanation, see page 428)