964 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
I wonder now whether my Friend Shri Rohini Kumar Chaudhari is satisfied with the explanation, I have given ?
Honourable Members : Not at all.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I know you want something more than what I can give. You are like hungry David Coperfield asking for more gruel.
[Paragraph 10, as amended by Dr. Ambedkar’s above mentioned amendment, was added to the Schedule.]
(Paragraph 12)
*The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : May I draw attention to my amendment No. 128 on the Order Paper? As that is going to be moved, this amendment of my friend will be quite unnecessary. Therein I am proposing the omission of the words objected to by him.
Shri Kuladhar Chaliha : I am glad that for once some kind of sense has dawned upon the Drafting Committee. It is fortunate that for the first time sense has dawned on the Drafting Committee.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : That is because for the first time you have convinced me by your arguments.
Sir, I will now move my amendment No. 128 :
“That in clause (b) of paragraph 12, for the words ‘with the approval of the District Council for such district or the Regional Council for such region specify in the notification, if a resolution recommending the issue of such direction is passed by such District Council or such Regional Council, as the case may be’ the words ‘specify in the notification’ be substituted.”
The Governor, by this amendment, is freed from the trammels of any resolution that may be passed by the District Council or the Regional Council. He can now act on the advice of the Ministry whether a particular law passed by Parliament or by the Legislature of Assam is to apply to that area or not.
[Amendment was adopted. Paragraph 12, as amended, was added to the Schedule.]
(Paragraph 13)
†Mr. President: Amendment No. 129.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Sir, I move :
“That in paragraph 13, after the words ‘the State of Assam shall’ the words ‘be first placed before the District Council for discussion and then after such discussion’ be inserted.”
*CAD, Vol. IX, 6th September 1949, p. 1043.
† Ibid., p. 1044.