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passed in this session. If this measure is not passed in this Session all our efforts and Gandhiji’s efforts will be futile. So my submission is this and I beg Dr. Ambedkar to kindly withdraw his objection and agree to the passage of this Bill as soon as possible because this would also help him in getting this relevant portion of the Hindu code passed.
Shri K. Hanumanthiya: Has the honourable member accepted the name of Shrimati Annie Mascarene which I have suggested ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Yes, I suppose the honourable the Law minister wants to know the number of men on the waiting list.
The question is :
“That the Bill to provide that marriages between Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and their different castes and sub-castes are valid, be referred to a Select Committee consisting of Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir, Sardur Hukum Singh, Shri M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Shri Deshbandhu Gupta, Shrimati G. Durgabai, Shrimati Renuka Ray, Shri Ramnath Goenka, Dr. Bakhshi Tek Chand, Lala Achint Ram, Ch. Ranbir Singh, Shri Mahavir Tyagi, Shrimati Annie Mascarene, and the Mover, with instructions to report by the 28th February 1949, and that the number of members whose presence shall be necessary to constitute a meeting of the Committee shall be five.”
The motion was adopted.
*HINDU CODE—contd.
Mr. Speaker : The honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava — rose.
Shri Jaspat Rai Kapoor (U. P. : General): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have to raise a point of order which, if accepted, will bar any further discussion on the point of order raised in the previous session by my honourable friend Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad. I therefore, submit that I be permitted to place my point of order for your consideration.
Mr. Speaker : As Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava was on his legs, I think I ought to hear him first. I do not anticipate what he is going to say; I have my own views on the point of order raised but I will consider what Pandit Thakur Das has to say,
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (East Punjab : General): Sir, on the last occasion when the motion was made by the Honourable Dr. Ambedkar, Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad took a point of order on the point that the Bill considered by the Select Committee was not the
- C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. I, Part II, 17th February 1949, pp. 614-21.