534 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
census, is he prepared to amend it by saying ‘the latest census’ ?
Mr. Vice-President : Mr. Khandekar may come to the rostrum and speak.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I have accepted the amendment of Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad as amended by him and as amended by Shri Bhargava.
[In all 8 amendments were negatived. Following amendments were adopted.]
1 “ That in sub-clause (a) of clause (5) of article 67, for the words ‘representatives of the people of the territories of the states directly chosen by the voters’, the words ‘members directly elected by the voters in the States’ be substituted.”
2 “ That in sub-clause (b) of clause (5) of article 67, the words ‘of India’ be deleted.”
3 “ That the proviso to sub-clause (b) of clause (5) of article 67 be deleted.”
4 “ That with reference to amendment No. 1434 of the List of amendments, in sub-clause (c) of clause (5) of article 67, for the words ‘ members to be elected at any time for ‘, the words ‘representatives allotted to’ be substituted.”
5 “ That in sub-clause (c) of clause (5) of article 67, for the words ‘last preceding census’ the words ‘last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published’ be substituted.”
6 “ That in clause (7) of article 67, for the word ‘may’ the word ‘shall’, for the word ‘territories’ the words ‘the territories’ and for the words ‘other than States’ the words ‘directly governed by the centre on the same basis as in the case of states which are constituent parts of the Union’ be substituted respectively.”
7 “That with reference to amendment No. 1450 of the List of amendments, after clause (8) of article 67, the following new proviso be inserted :—
‘Provided that such readjustment shall not affect representation to the House of the People until the dissolution of the then existing House’.”
8 “That to article 67, the following new clause (10) be added :—
‘(10) The election to the House of the People shall be in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote.”
Article 67, as amended, was added to the Constitution.
ARTICLE 147-A
- Mr. Vice-President : Dr. Ambedkar will reply to the amendment.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : Sir, I oppose the amendment, and all that I need say is this, that the basic principle of the amendment is so fundamentally opposed to the basic principles on which the Draft Constitution is based, that I think it is almost impossible now to accept any such proposal.
Mr. Vice-President : I am now going to put the amendment to vote. The question is :
“That before article 14X, the following new article 147-A be added :—
“147-A. The legislature of every state shall be wholy separate from independent of Executive or the Judiciary in the State’.
[This amendment of Prof. K. T. Shah was negatived.]
* CAD, Vol. VII, 6th January 1949, p. 1304.