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578 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
wives of those who are enfranchised, the limit of enfranchising those who had not the franchise is bound to be higher. On account of the special and difficult position in which we were placed we had to take up the attitude of not giving votes to the wives of those who are already enfranchised and thus depriving the unenfranchised of their rights. We are not against removing the disqualification of sex.
Chairman: Paragraph 9 noted