312 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
done to the society. This is a measure by which we are trying to make Hindu society healthy and wholesome. The Hindu society is full of defects. We are now independent. If in the world we have to take our status, we have to set our house right; unless we do it we cannot take our position in society. Therefore, let us get together and remedy the defects that are in the house. I only appeal to you and I am sure we will have the support of all of you for this good measure.
The Assembly then adjourned till a Quarter to Eleven of the Clock on Friday the 25th February, 1949.
- HINDU CODE— contd.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The House will now proceed with the further consideration of the following motion moved by the Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on the 31st August 1948 :
That the Bill to amend and codify certain branches of the Hindu Law, as reported by the Select Committee, be taken into consideration.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad (West Bengal : Muslim): Sir, I have moved amendments and I think, it will be proper for me to advance arguments and for others to speak. Instead of that if I have to listen to them now and then speak, where would be the scope for them to reply ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I think the honourable member who has moved an amendment to the motion will be in a better position if he speaks later because as he knows he won’t have an opportunity to reply.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I do not wish to reply.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : In that view it will be right that the honourable Member should hear certain speeches for and against his motion so that he may be able to reply and he may speak once for all. I have called Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava ( Interruption ) . The duty of regulating the order of speakers is with the Chair. I feel it right to call upon Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava.
- Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (East Punjab : General): (English translation of the Hindi speeches) Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Hindu Code Bill that has throughout India . . . .
*C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, Part II, 25th February 1949. pp. 877-78.
*C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, Part II, 25th February 1949, pp. 895-936.