804 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
original draft. I do not quite understand your suggestion as to the process in which the amendments would now be taken up.
Mr. President : If there is any amendment which is of a substantial nature, which touches any of the amended drafts as proposed by the Drafting Committee, I shall certainly take it up, but I leave it to the Members to point out to me which particular amendment they wish to move.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : If the original draft is not moved, all the amendments tabled to that draft go by the wind.
Mr. President : We do not move the original draft, but it will be taken as moved and then the other amendments come in.
Members will find that Dr. Ambedkar has given notice of certain amendments which have been circulated to Members. The first is No. 1 in List I.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, May I give the references ? The amendments of which notice has been given about the citizenship clause are spread over various lists, and I propose to give in the beginning to Members the references to the various lists. The first amendment is No. 1 of List I. Then come amendments Nos. 128,
129, 130, 131, 132 and 133 of List IV. These are the various proposals of the Drafting Committee with regard to this article. I feel that the House may not be in a position to get a clear and complete idea if these amendments were moved bit by bit, separately. Therefore what I propose to do is this that I will move a consolidated amendment, so to say, which I have prepared, consisting of amendments Nos.
1, 128, 129, 130 and 133. My Friend, Mr. T. T. Krishnamachari, will subsequently move the other two amendments which are Nos.
131 and 132 in List IV. In amendment No. 129, it should read “of the proposed article 5A” instead of “of the proposed article 5.” It is a printing error. With these preliminary observations, so to say, I move my amendment:
“That for articles 5 and 6, the following articles be substituted :—
“5. At the date of commencement of this Constitution, every person who has his domicile the territory in India and—
Citizenship at the date of Commencement this Constitution.
(a) who was horn in the territory of India ; or (b) either of whose parents was born in the territory of India ; or (c)who has been ordinarily resident in the territory of India for not less than five years immediately preceding the date of such commencement.