DRAFT CONSTITUTION 863
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Entry No. 19. Now, with regard to the question put to me by my Friend Dr. Deshmukh, he wants that the words “for reasons connected with the State” should be substituted. In my judgment, that would be a limiting entry; and ours is a much better one as it specifies the subject-matter in connection with which the preventive detention may be ordered.
And then Mr. Brajeshwar Prasad wants public safety to be introduced.
Shri Brajeshwar Prasad : I did not want it. I only wanted to know whether the phrase “reasons connected with defence etc.” included “public safety or interest.”
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes, “security of India” is a very wide term.
Shri Brajeshwar Prasad : I am not referring to “security of India” but to “public safety or interest”.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Now, with regard to Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad’s question, he wants the words “persons subjected to such detention” to be deleted.
Mr. President : No, he has not moved that amendment. He only wants to substitute the word “external” for the word “foreign”.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : We are hitherto using the word “foreign” throughout, and I think it is better we keep to the same word.
Shri H. V. Kamath : Is the security of India the same as the security of any part of it ? And is the present entry in consonance with article 275?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Yes, undoubtedly.
Mr. President : I shall put amendment No. 149 of Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad to vote.
[The amendment was negatived.]
Mr. President : Then I put Dr. Deshmukh’s amendment.
[The amendment was also rejected.]
Mr. President : Then I put the entry as it was moved by Dr. Ambedkar.
[The amendment was adopted.]
UNION LIST
ENTRY 4
*Mr. President : Then we come to entry 4.
*CAD, Vol. IX, 29th August 1949. p. 731.