360 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : In the Nagpur constituency the Scheduled Castes Federation got 1,933 votes and the Congress candidate got 270. In Bhandara District the Federation candidate got 3,187 and the Congress candidate, including others who were independent, got altogether 976. In the Agra constituency in the United Provinces the Scheduled Castes Federation candidate got 2,248 while the Congress and others put together got only 840. In the Punjab, Ludhiana—Ferozepur Constituency, I am taking one as an illustration—the Scheduled Castes Federation got 1,900 votes and the Congress got only 500.
Diwan Chaman Lall : There was no Scheduled Caste candidate in the Punjab.
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : Will my friend let me go on. I know more about these matters than I think he does.
Diwan Chaman Lall : My Honourable friend knows there was not one single candidate.
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : The Scheduled Castes Federation who.....
Diwan Chaman Lall : It is a tissue of lies.
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : My Honourable friend will withdraw it. Sir, I seek the protection of the Chair.
Diwan Chaman Lall : I challenge my friend to deny the fact that there was not a single candidate of his Federation put up in the Punjab.
Mr. President : Order, order. It is no use introducing heat in the debate when the Honourable Member is giving the facts. The point was raised and the reply was invited and whatever he has to say must be heard patiently. I am not concerned with the question as to whether what he said is a fact or not but no Honourable Member of the House is entitled to or can say that what the other Honourable Member was saying was “a tissue of lies.”
Diwan Chaman Lall : I withdraw it, Sir, and substitute for it “a tissue of terminological inexactitudes.”
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : I will give one constituency from Madras, viz. Amalapuram. The Federation candidate got 10,540 votes and the Congress candidate 2,683. That is the result of the primary election and I say that if anybody wants to apply an honest test, that test ought to be the test of the primary election. I want to tell my