1116 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
criticism which has been levelled against this part of the article. Sir, I hope the House will now accept the amendment.
Mr. President: Before putting the proposition moved by Dr. Ambedkar to vote, I desire to say a few words, particularly because I see in front of me the Honourable the Finance Minister. I do not wish to say anything either in support of or in opposition to the article which has been moved, but I desire to point out that there is a considerable feeling in the provinces that their sources of revenue have been curtailed a great deal, and also, particularly among the provinces, which are poor, that the distribution of the income-tax is not such as to give them satisfaction. I desire to ask the Finance Minister to bear this in mind when he comes to consider the question of the distribution of the income-tax, so that it may not be said that the policy of the Government of India is such as to give more to those who have much and to take away the little from those who have little.
I shall now put the various amendments to vote.
All amendments were negatived.
[Original proposition moved by Dr. Ambedkar was adopted. Article
264-A, as amended, was added to the constitution.]
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I would like you to take up article 280-A.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : I strongly object to that article being taken up today. I received the amendment only this morning. The matter with which it deals is a very important one and we should be allowed some time to consider it and to put forward amendments, if we want to do so.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : In addition, this article proposes to introduce a new kind of emergency unknown in any system.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I hope you will not allow these technicalities to stand in the way of the business of the House. Now, even if the honourable Member got the amendment at nine o’clock, from nine to twelve he had time. I do not think there is anything obscure in this amendment. A man of much less intelligence than my honourable Friend Pandit Kunzru could understand it on first reading. I have no doubt about it.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : Sir, it is a very important matter and Dr. Ambedkar’s impatience and rudeness should not be allowed to override the rights of the Members—rights which they clearly enjoy under the rules. I demand, Sir, that we should be given more time to consider
*CAD, Vol. X, 16th October 1949, p. 342.