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Mr. Vice-President: The question is’:
“That article 66 stand part of the constitution.”
The motion was adopted.
Article 66 was added to the constitution.
ARTICLE 67
Mr. Vice-President: We next come to article 67. The motion: is :
“That article 67 form part of the Constitution.”
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi (Madras : General): Mr. VicePresident, I have an humble suggestion to make in the matter of procedure when we deal with this article. You will be pleased to see that this article relates to the composition of the Houses of Parliament, the two Houses, namely, the Council of states and the House of the People. It contains nine clauses, and I would suggest that in the interest of clarity of discussion, this article may be split up into three parts : one relating to the composition of the council of states—clauses
(1) to (4); clauses (5) to (7) relate to the composition of the House of the People, clauses (8) and (9) are consequential, relating to both the Houses, regarding the census and the effect on the enumeration of the census.
I talked this matter over with Dr. Ambedkar and he himself said that he had marked it like that in his book, and that he proposed to make certain changes of transposition during the third reading. It may not be therefore quite possible straightway to split it at present, but I would request you to have all the amendments to the Council of States, clauses (1) to (4), taken together and discussions may be concentrated regarding them first, and the article may be kept open for amendments. After the discussion is over, you may put the whole clause together. All this I suggest in the interest of clarity so that when Honourable Members deaf with the Council of States they may confine their discussion on it and later on they may concentrate their discussion on the part of the article relating to, the House of the People.
Mr. Vice-President: Have you anything to say, Dr. Ambedkar, regarding this matter, namely, the suggestion of Mr. Bharathi ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I am quite agreeable to the suggestion for the purpose of facilitating discussion.
Mr. Vice-President: Then we can take up the amendments in their particular order.