1002 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
to the provinces because if the House would agree to carry my amendment No. 374, the provinces will get such portion of any tax on the sale of newspapers as they may have raised and now receive, under the amendment No. 374. In making these proposals, we have taken into consideration as I said the general proposition that newspapers having been connected, with fundamental rights, ought to come under the jurisdiction of the Centre, and that any financial gain which the provinces would have got should not be lost sight of. Both these considerations have prevailed with the Drafting Committee in making these changes.
I submit, notwithstanding the declarations of my honourable Friend Mr. Sidhva which I can understand, because he is smarting under a great injury which he suffered in another place, I say that there can be no objection to the entries that we have proposed.
Shri R. K. Sidhva : Sir, I take exception to Dr. Ambedkar’s remarks when he said that I am smarting under some injury. I shall pay him in his own coins unless you ask him to withdraw those remarks.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I am quite prepared to withdraw them, Sir. But, I know it very well.
Mr. President : That settles the matter.
[The original amendment of Dr. Ambedkar, as shown above, was adopted and other amendments were rejected. Entries 58 and 58-A, as amended, were added to the State List of the Seventh Schedule.]
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*Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : Dr. Ambedkar has already moved it. It is only a formal matter and it can be put to vote.
Mr. President : Does any one wish to say anything about amendment No. 374 moved by Dr. Ambedkar?
(No Member rose)
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It is only a consequential thing, Sir.
Mr. President : There is no amendment to this. I shall put this to vote.
The question is :
“That in clause (I) of article 250, after sub-clause (d), the following subclauses be added : —
“(e) taxes other than stamp duties on transactions in stock-exchanges and futures market;
(f) taxes on the sale or purchase of newspapers and on advertisements published therein’.”
(The amendment was adopted.)
*CAD, Vol. IX, 9th September 1949, p. 1184.
† Ibid., pp. 1184-1185.