546 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
to the Legislature under the new Constitution may be held as early as possible in the year 1950.
Resolved further that the State electoral rolls he prepared on the basis of the provisions of the new Constitution agreed to by this Assembly and in accordance with the principles hereinafter mentioned, namely :—
(1) That no person shall be included in the electoral roll of any area if he is of unsound mine and stands so declared by a competent court.
(2) That 1st January 1949 shall be the date with reference to which the age of the electors is to be determined.
(3) That a person shall not be qualified to be included in the electoral roll for any area unless he has resided in that area for a period of not less than
180 days in the year ending on the 31st March 1948. For the purposes of this paragraph, a person shall be deemed to be resident in any area if he ordinarily resides in that area or has a permanent place of residence therein.
(4) That, notwithstanding anything in paragraph (3) above, a person who has migrated into a Province or according State on account of disturbances or fear of disturbances in his former place of residence shall be entitled to be included in the electoral roll of an area if he files or makes a declaration of his intention to reside permanently in that area.
(Then motion, as amended was adopted.)
[The motion, as amended, was adopted 5 amendments were rejected.]
ARTICLE 149 (Contd.)
- Mr. Vice-President : Now we come to article 149. I think there has been sufficient discussion on this article and Dr. Ambedkar will now reply.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. Vice-President, Sir, in reply to the debate on article 149, I wish, first of all, to make clear my position with regard to my own amendment which was No. 2255. I want the permission of the House to withdraw this amendment; and in lieu of that I accept amendment No. 2249, as amended by amendment No. 48 of List II by Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad.
I also accept amendments Nos. 62 and 66 of List IV by Shri T. T. Krishnamachari, amendment No. 2252 as modified by the amendment of Mr. Bhargava and amendment No. 2263 as modified by amendment No. 67 of Shri Shibban Lal Saksena,
Now, Sir, so far as the general debate on the article is concerned, it seems to me that there are only two points that call for reply. The first point is with regard to the census figures to be adopted for the purpose of the new elections. A great deal of argument was concentrated
*CAD, Vol. VII, 8th January 1949, pp. 1387-89.