DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 239
before the house for consideration of the Bill as reported by the Select Committee, I am afraid I cannot take any other attitude than the one I have taken.
Ch. Ranbir Singh rose —
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi (Madras: General) : How can he be allowed to speak ?
The closure motion has been put.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I allowed Dr. Ambedkar to speak and he is not the sponsor. The question was not put.
Ch. Ranbir Singh (East Punjab : General): ( English translation of the Hindi Speech ) Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have great pleasure in supporting this measure because I belong to that community amongst the Hindus who have always believed in the principle of mis Bill from the very outset. If there was any community amongst the Hindus which ever established relations outside its own sphere and that there existed no differences, it was the Jat community. It is true that there did exist some such element of difference and social ostracism but that was negligible. The very fact that this Bill will go a long way to establish throughout our country a principle in which we have believed since centuries past, affords me great pleasure to support this.
Secondly, just as my honourable friend Mr. Tyagi has stated, this will banish our mutual differences wliich were responsible for our slavery. By the integration of small states our leader the Honourable Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel has consolidated our country into one and that problem has been well solved. This Bill is a very good measure for solving our social problems.
So far as the Hindu Code Bill is concerned that is a big thing, It is not yet known whether or not the country or this House accepts it. It contaias some provisions over wliich our leaders have expressed some sort of difference. I, therefore, fail to understand how far it is correct to shelve or reject this Bill simply for the reason mat it forms part and parcel of that Bill, because if the Hindu Code Bill is passed, this measure will naturally be incorporated in it. If that is not passed, this Bill will at least have chances of being passed.
With these words I whole-heartedly support this.
Shri K. M. Munshi : Is it permissible for me to answer a point made by Dr. Ambedkar ?