DRAFT CONSTITUTION 329
Shri H. V. Kamath : Sir, I beg to move :
“That in clause (1) of Article 1, for the word ‘Slates’ the word ‘Provinces’ he substituted.”
(Discussion follows)
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I do not accept the amendment.
(At this stage Shri Himmat Singh K. Maheshwari rose to speak.)
Mr. Vice-President : The Honourable Dr. Ambedkar has already replied to the debate and I am sorry I cannot allow any further debate on the motion.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru (United Provinces : General) : Sir, it after every motion is moved by a member and you ask Dr. Ambedkar whether he agrees to it and after allowing him to express his views you debar other members from speaking on the subject, it will be very hard on the House.
Mr. Vice-President : I am afraid Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru has not realised exactly my position. I am always prepared to give every possible facility to every member here, which I need not demonstrate further than by reference to what I have done in the last few days. But just now we are pressed for time. After Mr. Kamath moved his amendment I wailed for some time to see if anybody would stand up and nobody stood up and when specially I found that Mr. Kamath had repeated the arguments which had been formerly staled by him, I thought that I would not be going against the wishes of the House by asking Dr. Ambedkar the question whether he wished to reply. If I failed to understand the attitude of the House I am very sorry.
Pandit Hirday Nath Kunzru : You are perfectly within your right in not allowing discussion of a clause which you regard as trivial and on which you think there has been sufficient discussion. You have the power to stop discussion and ask the Member in charge to reply. If in exercise of this power you asked Dr. Ambedkar to reply, there can be no objection to what you have done.
Mr. Vice-President: Then I will put the amendment to vote.
The motion of Mr. Kamath was negatived.
†Shri Mahavir Tyagi : Sir, I am not very keen to have all the words mentioned in my amendment inserted. I do not also want to make a
*CAD, (Official Report), Vol. VII. 15th November 1948, p. 413.
† Ibid., p. 413.