DRAFT CONSTITUTION 629
ARTICLE 153-A
*Mr. President : Does any one wish to say anything about this amendment ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I do not accept the amendment.
[The amendment of Prof K. T. Shah was negatived and Article 154 was added to the Constitution.]
ARTICLE 160
† Mr. President: Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I have nothing to say.
Article 160 was adopted and added to the Constitution.
NEW ARTICLE 163-A
‡ Mr. President: There is the new article 163-A which has to be moved. That is amendment No. 39 List I.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, it has to be held over.
ARTICLE 165
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : The Chair has on previous occasions permitted Dr. Ambedkar to move such amendments, and I think the same practice may be continued and it may be moved formally.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in article 165 for the words ‘a declaration’ the words ‘an affirmation or oath’ be substituted.”
The motion was adopted.
ARTICLE 166
#The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That after clause (1) of article 166. the following new clause be inserted :—
‘(la) No peson shall be a member of the Legislature of two or more States and if a person is chosen a member of the Legislatures of two or more States, then at the expiration of .such period as may be specified in rules made by the President that person’s seat in the Legislatures of all the States shall become vacant, unless he has previously resigned his seat in the Legislatures of all but one of the States’.”
This is a clause which provides for a case where a person is a member of the Legislatures of two States; the former clause dealt with a person who is a member of the Legislature of a State and of Parliament.
*CAD, Vol. VIII, 2nd June 1948, p. 558.
† Ibid., p. 564.
‡ Ibid., p. 566 .
# Ibid., P . 567.