388 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
I move:
“That after article U the following new article be inserted:-—
‘II-A- Imprisonment for debt is abolished.
11-B. Capital punishment except for sedition involving use of violence is abolished’.”
Sir, the two clauses are distinct and consequently when considering and adopting them it is not necessary for the House to accept both simultaneously or to reject both. It is open to the House to accept one and not to accept the other or to accept both.
Mr. Vice-President : Why not move that separately
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : I do not accept the amendment.
Mr. Vice-President : I shall put the amendment to vote.
The amendment was negatived.
ARTICLE 10
Mr. Vice President : We can now go back to Article No. 10. The motion before the House is :
That Article 10 form part of the Constitution.
‡ Shri H. V. Kamath : On a point of clarification, Sir, may I know from my Honourable Friend, Mr. Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar whether the words here expressed” any State for the time being specified in the First Schedule” applies to all the four parts of the First Schedule ? The first Schedule consists of four parts. Three parts refer to the States and the last part refers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; and we have already adopted article 1 which states in sub-clause (2) that “the States shall mean the States for the time being specified in Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule. May I know from him whether” any State for the time being specified in the First Schedule “means all the States and territories comprised in all the four parts of the First Schedule ? In that case the language of this amendment will have to be modified. It will have to read” under any State or territory in the first four parts I, II, III and IV of the First Schedule, “and if you want to retain only the word ‘ State’ then it will be ‘under any State specified in Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule.’
*CAD, Vol. VII, 30th November 1948, p. 672.
† Ibid., 672.
‡ Ibid., 678.