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they are nominated by the House as members thereof; but they are not entitled to vote at all, so that the addition of these three members will certainly not affect the voting strength of the House. I am sure that the House will accept this new provision contained in article 67-A. If I may point out to the House, the provision contained in article 67-A of nominating experts to the House is not at all a new suggestion. Those members of the House who are familiar with the provisions of the Government of India Act of 1919 know when it introduced a popular element in the House, it also contained a provision which empowered the Governors of the different provinces to appoint experts to deal in a particular manner when the House is considering such a measure. I think it is a useful provision and it would do a lot of good if such a provision was introduced in the Constitution.
*Mr. President: The suggestion is that this thing was not circulated before and Members wish to have time.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I have no objection if the House wants that the consideration of this matter be postponed.
Mr. President: We shall postpone it today and we shall take it up later.
ARTICLE 68
Mr. President: The motion is :
“ That article 68 form part of the Constitution.”
We shall now take up the amendments to this article.
(Amendments Nos. 1453 and 1454 were not moved.)
Amendment No. 1455 stands in the name of Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad. I think that is a verbal amendment. Will you like to move it ? With regard to these verbal amendments, I was going to make a suggestion to the Honourable Dr. Ambedkar. With regard to them, he might consider them in consutaltion with the Members who have given notice of such verbal amendments and such of them as would be accepted could be taken up at the time when the motion is placed before the House as having been accepted and we would save the time of the House in that way, but with regard to those which are not acceptable, of course, we shall have to consider what to do with them.
*CAD, Vol. VIII, 18th May 1949, p. 84.