464 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
- Mr. Vice-President : Amendment No. 1086 is disallowed as it is a verbal amendment.
Amendments Nos. 1087 and 1088 are identical. Dr. Ambedkar may move No. 1087.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
That in clause (a) of the proviso to article 45, for the word “resignation” the word “writing” be substituted.
† Mr. Vice-President : As no Member has desired to speak on the general discussion of this article, I propose to ask Dr. Ambedkar to reply to the debate. I have received a slip requesting for an opportunity to speak just now. It has come too late.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, the only amendment that I accept is No. 1090 as amended by Mr. Gupte’s amendment. The others, I am sorry, I cannot accept. There has been no point raised by any Member which requires any explanation.
Mr. Vice-President : I am going to put the amendments to vote.
[In all five amendments were negatived as they were not accepted by Dr. Ambedkar. Only two amendments as shown below were adopted.]
Mr. Vice-President : Now, the question is—
That in clause (a) of the proviso to article 45 for the word ‘resignation’ the word ‘writing’ be substituted.
[This amendment moved by Dr. Ambedkar was adopted.]
Mr. Vice-President : Now I shall put amendment No. 1090 as modified by amendment No. 26(A) standing in the name of Shri B. M. Gupte to the vote of the House.
The question is :
That—
(1) Article 45 be re-numbered as clause (1) of that article.
(2) In clause (a) of the proviso to the said clause as so re-numbered for the words “Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker of the House of the People” the word ‘Vice-President’ be substituted.
(3) In the said article as re-numbered add the following clause :—
“(2) Any resignation addressed to the Vice-President under clause (a) of the proviso to clause (1) of this article shall forthwith be communicated by him to the Speaker of the House of the People.”
The amendment was adopted.
Article 45, as amended, was adopted and added to the Constitution.
*CAD, Vol. VII, 13th December 1948. pp. 1019-20.
† Ibid., p. 1022.