488 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
ARTICLE 52
[Article 52 was adopted without discussion and added to the Constitution.]
ARTICLE 53
*Mr. Vice-President : Then we come to article 53. Amendment No. 1201 is being disallowed because it has the effect of a negative vote. Amendments Nos. 1202 and 1203 seem to be identical and I therefore allow amendment No. 1202 to be moved.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in article 53 for the words ‘or position of emolument’ the words ‘of profit’ be substituted.”
Mr. Vice-President : Then No. 1204 standing in the name of Mr. Mohd. Tahir.
Mr. Mohd. Tahir : I am not moving it, Sir.
Mr. Vice-President : Then amendment No. 1205 standing in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That to the proviso to article 53, the following be added : —
‘and shall not be entitled to any salary or allowance payable to the Chairman of the Council of States under article 79 of this Constitution.’”
The provision is intended to prevent making a double profit.
Mr. Vice-President : There is one amendment sent in by Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad, No. 33. This is formal and is disallowed.
Now I am putting these amendments to vote. Has any Member anything to say on these amendments ?
Shri H. V. Kamath : On a point of information, Sir, with reference to amendment No. 1205, will the Vice-President, when he acts as President, draw the salary and allowances of the President or those of the Vice-President only ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The salary of the President. salary of the office.
Mr. Vice-President : Then I am putting these amendments to vote. I shall put No. 1202 standing in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.
The question is :
“That in article 53, for the words ‘or position of emolument’ the words ‘of profit’ be substituted.”
The amendment was adopted.
- CAD, Vol. VII, 28th December 1948, pp. 1088-89.