428 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
With regard to the amenities which perhaps some of them enjoy, it is certtainly within the power of the executive and the legislature to withdraw them. It is quite true, as my Honourable Friend Mr. Chaudhari said, that in some cases summons are sent by the magistrate. In other cases when the man concerned occupies a bigger position in life, instead of sending summons, he sends a letter. Some persons, when appearing in courts, are made to stand while some other persons are offered a chair. All these are matters of dignity which are entirely within the purview of the legislature and the government. If there was any anomaly or discrepancy or disparity shown between a citizen and a citizen, it is certainly open both to the legislature and the executive to remove those anomalies. I therefore think that the amendment is quite unnecessary.
[The motion of Prof, Shah was negatived.]
ARTICLE 23 (Contd.)
*Mr. Vice-President (Dr. H. C. Mookherjee): We shall now resume discussion of article 23 to which two amendments have been moved. Amendment No. 677 relates to national language and script and is therefore postponed. Amendments Nos. 678,679, 680 and 681 (1st part) are to be considered together as they are of similar import. I can allow No. 678 to be moved.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : Sir, I move—
“That in clause (1) of article 23, for the words “script and culture” the words “script or culture” be substituted.”
The only change is from and ‘to’ ‘or’ and the necessity of the change is so obvious that I do not think it is necessary for me to say anything regarding the same.
†Mr. Vice-President : Amendment No. 679.
Shri H. V. Kamath (C.P. & Berar: General): I have been forestalled by Dr. Ambedkar. So, I do not move No. 679.
Mr. Vice-President : Do you wish to press No. 680 ?
Mohamed Ismail Sahib (Madras : Muslim) : Yes.
Mr. Vice-President : Do you wish that 681 first part should be put to vote ?
Prof. K. T. Shah (Bihar : General) : First part is covered by Dr. Ambedkar’s amendmednt. But I would like to move the second part.
*CAD. Vol. VII, 8th December 1948. p. 895.
† Ibid., p. 895.