1132 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
sovereign on that account. (Interruption). I am taking the worst example. I know that some people have that sort of fear. (Interruption).
Shrimati Purnima Banerji : May I, sir………
Mr. President : Let Dr. Ambedkar proceed. He has not insinuated anything.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I say that this Preamble embodies what is the desire of every Member of the House that this Constitution should have its root, its authority, its sovereignty, from the people. That it has.
Therefore I am not prepared to accept the amendment. I do not want to say anything about the text of the amendment. Probably the amendment is somewhat worded, if I may say so with all respect in a form which would not fit in the Preamble as we have drafted, and therefore on both these grounds I think there is no justification for altering the language which has been used by the Drafting Committee.
[The amendment was negatived. The motion was adopted and The Preamble was added to the Constitution.]
Mr . President : We are now coming to the close of this session. Before I actually adjourn the House, there are certain things which have to be settled at this stage. One of the questions which have to be decided is the next session for the Third Reading of the Constitution, and on previous occasions the House gave me permission to call it at any time I thought necessary, and this time also I suppose the House would give me that permission, but I would ask Mr. Satyanarayan Sinha to move a formal resolution to that effect.
The Honourable Shri Satyanarayan Sinha : Sir, I move :
“That the Assembly do adjourn until such day in November 1949 as the President may fix”.
Mr. President : The question is :
“That the Assembly do adjourn until such day in November 1949 as the President may fix”.
The motion was adopted.
Mr. President : I think we have done with all the amendments, of which we had notice, and I need not say anything more about them. Now that we have concluded the second Reading of the Constitution, by virtue of the powers vested in me under Rule 38-R as recently passed by this House, I shall refer the Draft Constitution with the amendments to the Drafting Committee in order to carry out such redraft of the articles, revision of punctuations, revision and completion of the marginal notes,