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The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It is quite obvious that we have not specified parts. We have merely said ‘First Schedule’ and First Schedule includes all the States in the First Schedule.
Shri H. V. Kamath : Article 1 says ‘the States included for the time being specified in Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule.’ The territories comprised in Part IV is not a State according to our Constitution.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : There should be no attempt to make any distinction at all.
Shri H. V. Kamath : If my point is unanswerable, I have nothing to say.
Shri Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar : If you only refer to the First Schedule, you will find that Part I refers to the territories known immediately before the commencement of this Constitution as the Governor’s Provinces. Part II deals with the territories known immediately before the commencement of this Constitution as the Chief Commissioners’ provinces of Delhi, Ajmer-Merwara and so on. Part III deals with Indian States. All these three categories are referred to and described as ‘States’ in Article 1. Part IV of Schedule 1 are Andamans and Nicobar Islands. These are not States but territories.
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. Vice-President, Sir, I am going to say at the outset, before I deal with the specific questions that have been raised in the course of debate, that I cannot accept amendment No. 334 moved by Mr. Misra ; nor can I accept the two amendments moved by my friend, Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad, Nos. 336 and 337. I am prepared to accept the amendment of Mr. Imam No.
338, as amended by amendment No. 77 moved by Mr. Ananthasaynam Ayyangar. I am also prepared to accept the amendment of Mr. Kapoor, viz.. No. 340, as amended by amendments Nos. 81 and 82 moved by my friends Mr. Munshi and Mr. Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar.
I do not think that I am called upon to say anything with regard to amendments Nos. 334, 336 and 337. Such observations, therefore, as I shall make in the course of my speech will be confined to the question of residence about which there has been so much debate and the use of the word “backward” in clause (3) of article 10. My friend Mr. T. T. Krishnamachari, has twitted the Drafting Committee that the
*CAD, Vol. VII, 30th November 1948, pp. 699-702.