966 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : My Honourable friend is free to draw any inference he likes.
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan : Does the Honourable Member know that there is a feeling abroad that in the matter of appointment of Muslims the Government always meets out stepmotherly treatment to the Muslims ?
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer: In reply to part (a) the Honourable Member said “as a measure of administrative convenience”. Is it the convenience of the Honourable Member to make it a convenience to avoid appointments of Muslims ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I think it is so simple an expression that everybody ought to understand it.
Mr. President: Order, order—next question.
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*** Muslim Gazetted Officers in Labour** Department Secretariat
- Mr. Muhammad Rahmat Ullah : Will the Honourable the Labour Member kindly state the proportion of Muslim Gazetted Officers in the Labour Department Secretariat ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : There are 49 Secretariat Gazetted Officers in the Labour Department, of whom 9 are Muslims.
Mr. Ahmad E. H . Jaffer: Docs it not mean that the proportion of Muslims is not maintained, according to the 25 per cent ratio ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not know that that rule applies.
Mr. Ahmed E. H. Jaffer : 9 out of 49—is it fair to the Muslim community that they should have this low percentage ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: I understand that is not a matter governed by the communal representation ratio.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III of 1946, 28th February 1946, p. 1668.