DRAFT CONSTITUTION 933
Shri R. K. Sidhva : You can drop those words.
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It will also include malguzars. Before I accept any entry, I must have in my mind a clear and consistent idea as to what the words mean. The word “agriculturists” has no precise meaning. It may mean a rack-renter. It may mean a person who is actually a cultivator. It may mean a person who has got two acres. It may also mean a person who has five thousand acres, or five lakhs acres.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : I am prepared to omit that particular expression.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : That is one difficulty I find. The second point is my Friend Dr. Deshmukh does not seem to pay much attention to the different entries and what they mean. So far as agriculture is concerned, we have got two specific entries in List II—No.
21 which is Agriculture and No. 24 which is Land. If he were to refer to these two entries he will find...†
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : What fallacious arguments are being advanced ! For that matter, Labour welfare is a specific entry and yet you wanted separate provision for their vocational training? Do not advance fallacious arguments.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : It is not my business to answer questions relating to the faults of administrations. I am only explaining what the entries mean. As I said, we have already got two entries in List II. Entry 21 is there for Agriculture “including agricultural education and research, protection against pests and prevention of plant diseases”.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : Then why do you want “welfare of labour”?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Why can’t you have some patience? I know my job. Do you mean to say I do not know my job? I certainly know my job.
Dr. P. S. Deshmukh : I know your attitude also. Do not try to fool everybody!
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : There is already an entry which will empower any State to do any kind of welfare work not merely with regard to agriculture but with regard to agriculturists as well. In addition to that we have entry 24 where it is provided that laws may be made with regard to “rights in or over land, land tenures including the relation of land-lord and tenant”. All the economic interests
*CAD, Vol. IX, 3rd September 1949, pp. 944-946.
†Dots indicate interruption in original.