860 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
the serious nature of the amendments I say that the house should have time to consider them....
Mr. President : If any question is raised with regard to any particular amendment or item and if Members want time, we shall consider that at that time. Let us now proceed item by item.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay : General) : I would like to say that these amendments were circulated on Saturday, day before yesterday.
Mr. President : Were they circulated on Saturday ?
Some Honourable Members : Yes, Sir.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : On Saturday evening, I think. So far as Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad is concerned, there are some forty amendments standing in his name.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Only twenty.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : They cover the whole of List I. Therefore my submission is that the complaint, so far as he is individually concerned, that he did not have time, must be regarded as absolutely unfounded.
UNION LIST
ENTRY 1
*Mr. President : You (Dr. P. S. Deshmukh) had not given notice of this amendment originally, not even in the first instance.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : This is not an amendment to an amendment.
Mr. President : This is altogether a new amendment.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : I am moving this amendment on the same principle as that on which Dr. Ambedkar has been moving his amend ments so far as the articles are concerned.
Mr. President : There was previously no notice of an amendment to entry
- This is the first time we have an amendment to this entry.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : It is a fact. Sir. If Dr. Ambedkar feels that a rewording of this Entry is necessary, he might perhaps accept it; otherwise I am prepared to withdraw it.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : This is merely a paraphrase of Entry 1. You have ruled that we should not spend more than five minutes on an Entry and it is already more than five minutes.
Mr. President : As Dr. Ambedkar has pointed out, this being merely a paraphrase of the Entry, we might leave it to him to consider. I do not
*CAD, Vol. IX, 29th August 1949, p. 722.