850 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
ARTICLE 293
- Mr. President : Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I do not think it is necessary to say anything.
[Article 293 was added to the constitution without any amendment.]
ARTICLE 294
†The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That for article 294, the following be substituted :—
- (1) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, except the Scheduled Tribes in the tribal Reservation of seats for areas of the Assam in the Legislative Assembly of minorities in Legislative every State for the time being specified in Part I or Assemblies of the States Part III of the First Schedule.
(2) Seats shall be reserved also for the autonomous districts in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam.
(3) The number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative assembly of any State under clause { I) of this article shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats in the assembly as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State or part of the State, as the case may be, in respect of which seats are so reserved bears to the total population of the State.
(4) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous district in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam shall bear to the total number of seats in that Assembly a proportion not less than the population of the district bears to the total population of the State.
(5) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autonomous district of the State of Assam shall not comprise any area outside that district except in the case of the constituency comprising the cantonment and the Municipality of Shillong.
(6) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district of the State of Assam shall be eligible for election to the Legislative Assembly of the State from any constituency of that district except from the constituency comprising the cantonment and municipality of Shilong.’ ”
This article is exactly the same as the original article as it stood in the Draft Constitution. The only amendment is that the provision for the reservation of seats for the Muslims and the Christians has been omitted from clasue (1) of article 294. That is in accordance with the decision taken by this Assembly on that matter.
ARTICLE 295-A
‡The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
*CAD, Vol. IX, 24nd August 1949, pp. 662.
† Ibid., p. 663.
‡ Ibid., p. 674.