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and I have my own conclusions about it. I think I can make the whole thing short by stating what I have felt about the Bill and decide the matter rather than take up the time of the House. That is my feeling in the matter. ( Some Honourable Members: “Quite so, Sir.”) Anyway, we are not going to finish this Bill today. We can just clear the ground and I think without further going into arguments, I may perhaps . . . .
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: I do not want to go further into arguments after having heard from you how things have taken place, but I do wish to place before you some of the ruling which I have got which go to show that this Bill as emerging out of Select Committee is abosultely unwarranted, illegal and vitiates the entire report of the Committee and before the House there is no report at all. This is my submission. If you will permit, I will place some rulings before you.
Mr. Speaker: However, the rulings follow certain facts. In this case, it is alleged that, as a matter of fact, the Select Committee have failed to consider the original Bill. If that is established, then we shall have ample time to consider the rulings.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: Nobody is denying this fact.
Mr. Speaker : That is just the point, as the honourable member will see. When I give my ruling which I have carefully prepared after reading all the papers. If any further points arise after the facts as stated by me are accepted, then those points of order may be considered.
Shri M. Tirumala Rao (Madras : General): Before you give your ruling, is there no other method of knowing the truth except by inference ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Minister for Law): May I, with your permission, intervene for a minute to correct an impression which my friend Pandit Bhargava has sought to create in this House that the original Bill which was referred by this House to the Select Committee was never before the Select Committee ? I mink it is a gross mis-representation. If my honourable frined were to refer. . . . .
Mr. Speaker : I have myself studied the position in great details. I shall clarify it by reading out my decision.
Pandit Mukut Bihari Lal Bhargava (Ajmer-Merwara): I have additional facts.
Mr. Speaker: Order, order.