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talking in Urdu or Hindustani which a large number of South Indians cannot follow.
Mr. Vice-President : The Honourable Member is perfectly entitled to speak in any language he likes but I would request him to speak in English though he is not bound to speak in English.
Pandit Thakur Dass Bhargava : I wanted to speak in Hindi which is my own language about the cow and I would request you not to order me to speak in English. As the subject is a very important one, I would like to express myself in the way in which I can express myself with greater ease and facility. I would therefore request you kindly to allow me to speak in Hindi.
*[Mr. Vice-President, with regard to this amendment I would like to submit before the house that in fact this amendment like the other amendment, about which Dr. Ambedkar has stated, is his manufacture....
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I accept the amendment of Pandit Thakur Dass Bhargava.
Mr. Vice-President : I shall now put the amendments one by one to the vote. The amendment of Pandit Thakur Dass Bhargava. That is No. 72 in List II.
[The motion was adopted.]
Article 38-A, as amended, was added to the Constitution.
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†Mr. Vice-President : Shall we now go on to the next item in the agenda ? No. 1003 has been covered by one of the previous amendments. No. 1004 has also been disposed of. Then No. 1005. The first part of it cannot be moved, but the second part can be moved. (Not moved.)
Then the motion before the House is that article 39 forms part of the Constitution. There are several amendments to this.
(Nos. 1006, 1007 and 1008 were not moved.) No. 1009 by Dr. Ambedkar and his colleagues.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in article 39, after the words ‘from spoliation’ the word ‘disfigurement’ be inserted.”
*CAD, Vol. VII, 24th November 1048, p. 580.
† Ibid, p. 581.