336 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
not to allow such amendments. I request you to put it to vote now.
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I oppose the amendments.
Mr. Vice-President : I will put the amendments Nos. 131 and 132 to vole. Dr. Ambedkar has spoken already and there cannot he any further discussion.
The amendments were negatived..
Shri H. V. Kamath : Sir, I wish to speak on Article 2.
Mr. Vice-President Sir, it appears to me that lucre is a little lacuna in this Article which my Honourable friend, the able jurist and constitutional lawyer that he is, will rectify when it is finally dialled by the committee. If we turn to the report of the Union Constitution Committee.—I am reading from the report of (he Committee, second series, from July to August
- copy of which was supplied to each member last year—there Article
2 begins thus :—“The Parliament of the Federation” of course, we have changed the word Federation into Union but here you import the word ‘Parliament’ suddenly in Article 2 without saying to which Parliament it refers. This is a lacuna, because there is nothing so far in the previous article regarding Parliament. So we must say here the “Parliament of the Union.” This lacuna, I hope. will be rectified.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : We shall take note of what Mr. Kamath has said.
Article 2 was added to the Constitution.
ARTICLE 3
†The Honourable Shri K. Santhanam (Madras : General) : Sir, I move :
“That in clause (a) of article 3, the following words be added at the end:
‘or by addition of other territories to States or parts of States’.”
Shri M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar : I request the House to accept the amendment because by this addition alone will the article become complete.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. Vice-President. I am agreeable to the principle of the amendment moved by my friend Mr. Santhanam. The only point is that I like slightly to alter the language to read “or by uniting any territory to a part of any State”.
*CAD. (Official Report), Vol. VII. 18th November 1948. p. 435.
† Ibid., p. 435.