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Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : It was a short notice amendment.
Mr. Vice-President : It was a short notice amendment admitted by me. These two only remained to be put to the vote.
*Mr. Vice-President : We come to Mr. Krishnamachari’s amendment which was accepted by Dr. Ambedkar.
Shri H. V. Kamath : Is it necessary to say that Dr. Ambedkar has accepted or rejected everytime ?
Mr. Vice-President : Sometimes it is necessary. Not always. I now put the amendment to vote.
The question is :
“That in clause 2 of article 14 after the word ‘shall he’ the words ‘ prosecuted and ‘be inserted.”
The amendment wass adopted.
Article 14, as amended was added to the Constitution.
ARTICLE 15 (Contd.)
†Mr. Vice President (Dr. H. C. Mookherjee) : We can now resume general discussion on article 15.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : Sir, May I request you to allow this matter to stand over for a little while ?
Mr. Vice-President : Is that the wish of the House ?
Honourable Members : Yes.
ARTICLE 20
Mr. Vice-President : Then we can go to the next article, that is article 20.
The motion before the House is :
“That article 20 form part of the Constitution”.
I have got a series of amendments which I shall read over. Amendment No. 613 is disallowed as it has the effect of a negative vote. Nos. 614 and
616 are almost identical ; No. 614 may be moved.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in the beginning of article 20, the words ‘Subject to public order, morality and health’ be inserted.”
Sir, it was just an omission. Honourable Members will see that these words also govern article 19 ; as a matter of fact they should also have governed article 20 because it is not the purpose to give absolute rights
*CAD, Vol. VII, 6th December 1948, p. 842.
† Ibid., 7th December 1948. p. 859.