472 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Vice-President: The question is :
“That ill clause (2) of article 47, and in Explanation to clause 2, for the words ‘any office or position of emolument’, wherever they occur, the words ‘any office of profit he substituted”.
Mr. Vice-President: The question is :
That for sub-clause (a) of Explanation to clause (2) of article 47, the following he substituted :
‘(a) he is the Governor of any State for the time being specified in Part I of the First Schedule or is a minister either for India or for any such State; or’.”
Article 47, as amended, was adopted and added to the Constitution.
ARTICLE 47-A
*Mr. Tajamul Hussain : .......... Now. Sir, in my opinion, this is a fair amendment but I am afraid that this amendment will not be accepted by the Honourable Dr. Ambedkar. Professor Shah comes forward with beautiful amendments but they are all lost because the honourable Member in charge of the Draft Constitution is not in favour of them. Therefore, with your permission, I want to move a verbal amendment to this.
Mr. Vice-President: I cannot allow you to do that. In that case other people would also come forward with verbal amendments. You may make a suggestion for the acceptance of Dr. Ambedkar.
Mr. Tajamul Hussain : My suggestion is this : Mr. Shah’s amendment does not say that when a person is elected President he should declare and divest himself of all his personal property. He only says that he should divest himself of his rights, shares or interests in any concern aided or supported by government and that such rights, etc. should be taken over and held in trust for him by the Government of India. I say that as it would come to the Government of India, I thought that Dr. Ambedkar would accept it. If, Dr. Ambedkar as the Law Minister of the Government of India is not going to accept it, then instead of the ‘Government of India’, let it go to the President’s wife and children. That is a very simple matter ............
I support the amendment and I move my oral amendment.
Mr. Vice-President : There is no amendment to be moved.
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : Sir, I have nothing to say.
[Amendment of Prof. K. T. Shah was put to vote but was negatived by the House.]
*CAD. Vol. VII. 27th December 1948, p. 1040