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etc., Now, Dr. Ambedkar wants to substitute this latter part by amendment No. 820. You want to omit the words “provide for such matters” and retain only the proviso as regards punishment. What about making laws for such matters ? Why do you delete that portion ? Why do you retain only the part regarding punishment ? That was my point, but Dr. Ambedkar has answered a different point.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: The reason why for instance, I have introduced an amendment in clause (a) is because it is only in specific matters that Parliament has been given this penal authority and these articles are referred to in my amendment. My friend Mr. Kamath will see that clause (a) contains no reference to any of the articles which specifically give parliament the power to make laws. It is to make that point clear that I thought it would be desirable to make a reference to clause (2a) of article 10, article
16, clause (3) of article 25 and article 26, because, these are the specific articles which are to be dealt with exclusively by Parliament.
Mr. Vice-President : I shall now put the amendments to vote. All of them stand in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.
[Amendment Nos. 817, 820 and 822 moved by Dr. Ambedkar were adopted Article 27, as amended was adopted and added to the Constitution.]
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*Mr. Vice-President : I am well aware that there are many more Members who want to speak and who are fully competent to deal with this subject, but I think that it has been discussed sufficiently. Therefore I shall call upon Dr. Ambedkar. I am sorry to disoblige honourable Members, but I think they will recognise the fact that we have to make a certain amount of progress daily.
Shri Loknath Misra (Orissa : General) : But many points have been left untouched.
Mr. Vice-President : Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (Bombay : General) : Mr. Vice-President, Sir, this matter, as Honourable Members will recall, was debated at great length when we discussed one of the articles in
*CAD, Vol. VII, 10th December 1948, pp. 967-68.