452 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
system but also to the way in which America has built up her riches. These are the reasons for which I would support the Constitution as it is and oppose the amendment of Prof. Shah.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I am sorry I cannot accept any of the amendments that have been moved. So far as the general discussion of the clause is concerned, I do not think I can usefully add anything to what my friends Mr. Munshi and Shri Alladi Krishnaswamy Ayyar have said.
Mr. Vice-Presient : I am putting the amendments one by one to vote.
All 5 amendments were negatived.
[Article 42 was added to the Constitution.}
ARTICLE 43
- Mr. Vice-President : I am not putting amendment No. 1063 standing in the name of Dr. Ambedkar and others to vote, because it is identical with 1064 which has just been moved.
Do you accept it, Dr. Ambedkar ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : Yes, Sir.
Mr. Vice-President : Then I will not put it to vote.
An amendment to amendment No. 1064 standing in the name of Shri Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt was not moved as the Honourable Member is not in the House.
I disallow, as merely verbal, amendments Nos. 1065 and 1066.
Shri S. Nagappa (Madras : General) : I do not move amendment No. 1069, Sir.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Mr. Vice-President, I move :
“That to article 43 the following explanation be added :—
“Explanation.—In this and the next succeeding article, the expression “the Legislature of a State” means, where the Legislature is bi-cameral. the Lower House of the Legislature’.”
It is desirable that this amendment should be made, because there may be two legislatures in a State and consequently if this amendment is not made it will be open also to the Member of the Upper Chamber to participate in the election of the President. That is not our intention.
*CAD, Vol. VII, 10th December 1948, p. 994.