754 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(2) Before giving any decision on any such question, the President shall obtain opinion of the Election Commission and shall act according to such opinion.’ ”
This article is a replica, so to say, of article 167-A which we passed the other day which applies to similar cases in the provinces and I do not therefore think that any more explanation will be necessary.
[The New Article 83-A was adopted and added to the Constitution]
ARTICLE 127-A
*Mr. President : I think we had better take up articles 210 and 211. Thereafter we shall come to article 127-A.
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : Either way it does not matter because if this is accepted then article 210 and 211 get automatically dropped.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Mr. President, Sir, I move:—
“That after article 127, the following new article be inserted:—
‘127-A. The reports of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India relating to the accounts of a State shall be submitted to the Audit reports relating to accounts of a State. Governor or Ruler of the State, who shall cause them to be laid before the Legislature of the State.’”
The House will remember, it has now adopted articles whereby the auditing and accounting will become one single institution, so to say, under the authority of the Comptroller and Auditor-General. It is, therefore, necessary that we should make some provision that the reports relating to the audit and accounts of a particular State shall be submitted to the Legislature by the Governor or the Ruler for its consideration and that is what this article provides for.
Mr. President: Does any one wish to say anything about this article ?
Honourable Members : No.
New article 127-A was added to the Constitution
ARTICLE 197
†Mr. President : Shall we take up article 212 ?
Shri T. T. Krishnamachari : Article 188 may be taken up ; it has got to be deleted.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I was suggesting that articles
188 and 278 may be taken together. It would be better if the whole thing is explained.
Mr. President : Then, we shall taken up article 197.
- CAD, Vol. IX, dated 1st August 1949, p. 63 .
† Ibid., p. 64.