680 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The Honourable Shri K. Santhanam : Sir, I am unable to understand this. In the House here we pass something which is obviously wrong and unconstitutional and then leave it to the Drafting Committee. I do not think we can leave it to the Drafting Committee to tamper with the provisions we are making unless there is some lacuna or a mistake. We do not want to be faced with a new Constitutional together and subjected to the trouble of looking at it article by article again. I do not think it is right for this House to pass a clause which is obviously wrong. Either he must say Parliament shall have power……
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I am prepared to accept the amendment right now. You may suggest it. “Parliament shall have power to authorise by law.
The Honourable Shri K. Santhanam : Sir, the amendment may be, “and Parliament shall have power to authorise by law the withdrawal of moneys from the Consolidated Fund of India for the purposes for winch the said grants are made.”
Coming to clause (2), it says “that the provisions of articles 93 and94 of this Constitution shall have effect in relation to the making of any grant...;” I want to know if this means that there will have to bean Appropriation Act for this and that Appropriation Act will also show all the divisions, charged and non-charged, votable and non-votable, as stated in the previous article. If that is the implication…….
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : That cannot be.
The Honourable shri K. Santhanam : Article 93 says…..
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : If it will help the Honourable Member, we can say, there will be a Consolidated Fund Bill No. I before an Appropriation Act, which will have the main skeleton.
The Honourable Shri K. Santhanam : What I want to know is whether the Consolidated Fund Bill No. I will also consist of the charged and non-charged amounts and voted and non-voted amounts, or will give only the votable portion.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : The charged portion occurs only in the final Appropriation Act. This voting account gives what in the technical language of the House of Commons are called supply services as distinct from services charged on the revenues.
The Honourable Shri K. Santhanam : This article says that the provisions of articles 93 and 94 will have to be complied with.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Articles 93 and 94 mean the voting of Appropriation Act.