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and for recommending such formal or consequential or necessary amendments of the Constitution as may be required. This has to be done to complete the work and I do that by virtue of the authority which you have given me, with this, we now adjourn till such date as I may announce.
The Constituent Assembly then adjourned to a date in November
1949 to be fixed by the President.
TAKING THE PLEDGE AND SIGNING THE REGISTER .
- Mr. President : I understand that there are two Members who have to take the Pledge and sign the Register.
The following Member took the pledge and signed the register :—
Shri M. R. Masani (Bombay General).
Mr. President : We have now to take up the consideration of the Draft Constitution.
† The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay General) : Mr. President, Sir, I have to present the report of the Drafting Committee together with the Draft Constitution of India as revised by the Committee under rule 38-R of the Constituent Assembly rules. Sir, I move—
“That the amendments recommended by the Drafting Committee in the Draft Constitution of India be taken into consideration.”
Sir, I do not propose to make any very long statement of the report or on the recommendations made by the Drafting Committee for the purpose of revising or altering the articles as they were passed at the last session of this Assembly. The only thing that I wish to say is that I would not like to apologise to the House for the long list of corrigenda which has been placed before the House or the supplementary list of amendments included in list II. In my judgement it would have been much better if the Drafting Committee had been able to avoid this long list of corrigenda and the supplementary list of amendments contained in List II, but the House will realise the stress of time under which the Drafting Committee had been working. It is within the knowledge of all the Members of the House that the last session of the Constituent Assembly ended on the 17th of October. Today is the 14th of November. Obviously there was not even one full month available for the Drafting Committee to carry out this huge
*CAD, Official Report, Vol. X, 14th November 1949, p. 459
† Ibid., pp. 462-464.