476 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
of India Act, in the several Orders in Council which have been issued by the Secretary of State under the authority conferred upon him by the Second Schedule of the Government of India Act, official residences, both for the Governor-General and the Governors have been laid down ; and we have merely followed the existing practice in incorporating this particular provision in the Constitution ; and I do not think we have done any very great violence either to good taste or done something which we do not intend to do.
Shri H. V. Kamath : On a point of clarification, Sir, may I know whether this particular clause of article 48 will stand in the way of the President being provided with more than one official residence ? It speaks of the President having “an official residence. “
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Not at all. There may be two official residences.
Then, with regard to the amendment of Mr. Sarwate, No. 28,1 would like to say that this matter may have to be considered when we deal with the Constitution of the States which will accede to the Indian Union. Today the situation is so fluid that it is very difficult to make any provision of the sort which has been suggested by Mr. Sarwate.
Mr. Vice-President: The amendments will now be put to vote, one by one. Amendment No. 1130, standing in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.
[ All amendments of Dr. Ambedkar as shown were accepted. Amendments standing in the name of Mr. Sarwate, Mr. Naziruddin Ahmed, Mr. Kamath and Prof. K. T. Shah were negatived. Article 48, as amended, was adopted and added to the Constitution. ]
ARTICLE 49
- Mr. Vice-President : We now come to article 49.
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : Mr. Vice-President, Sir, I move :
“That in article 49 after the words ‘Chief Justice of India’ the words ‘or, in his absence the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court available’ he inserted.”
Sir, this is only making a provision in case the Chief Justice of India is not present, some other Judge should do his function, and it is but proper that the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court should do this function. Sir, I trust the House will accept the amendment because it needs no further explanation.
*CAD, Vol. VII, 27th December 1948, p. 1047.