DRAFT CONSTITUTION 851
“That after article 295, the following new article be inserted :—
‘295-A. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Reservation of seats for Part, the provisions of this Constitution relating Scheduled Castes and to the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Scheduled Tribes to cease Castes and the Scheduled Tribes either in to be in force after the the House of the People or in the Legislative expiration of ten years from Assembly of a State shall cease to have effect the commencement of this constitution on the expiration of a period of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution.”
This is also in accordance with the decision of the House. I do not think any explanation is necessary.
*Mr. President : Dr. Ambedkar.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : Mr. President, Sir, there are just four amendments about which I would like to say a few words. I will first take the amendment of my Friend Mr. Bhargava, and say that I am prepared to accept his amendment, because I find that although in the general body of the report that was made to this House, no mention as to time-limit was made to the proposal for allowing representation to Anglo-Indians by nomination, I find that in the subsequent debate which took place on that report, there is an amendment moved by my friend Pandit Bhargava which is very much in the same terms as the amendment which he has now moved, and I find that that amendment of his was accepted by the House. I, therefore, am bound to accept the amendment that he has moved now.
Next, with regard to the question raised by Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad, one part of it has been, I think, met by the amendment moved by my Friend Mr. Krishnamachari which I also accept. I am not at all clear in my own mind at the present stage whether the words in the clause mean that the time-limit should begin to operate from the commencement of the Con stitution or whether from the date of the first election to the new Parliament. But all I can say at this stage is that that is a matter which the Drafting Committee will consider and if it is necessary, they will bring about some amendment to carry out the intention that the period should be from the date of first meeting of the first Parliament.
With regard to the other arguments which have been used by my friends Mr. Muniswami Pillai and Mr. Monomohan Das, I am sorry it is not possible to accept that amendment. Their proposal is that while they are prepared to leave the clause as it is, they propose to vest Parliament with the power to alter this clause by further extension of the period of ten years. Now first of all we have as I said, introduced this matter in the
*CAD, Vol. IX, 25th August 1949, pp. 696-697.