DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 319
Mr. Tajamul Hussain (Bihar : Muslim): Sir, I beg to raise a point of information. The honourable member has stated that 11 out of 17 members of the Select Committee have written note of dissent. If they are opposed to this Bill, then I would like to enquire from the honourable members how this Bill came to be recommended by the Select Committee so that we may pass it.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in my opinion this question is neither a point for information nor a point of order even. You may go through this Bill yourself Sir. Mr. Bharathi has also written a note of dissent.
Shri L, Krishnaswami Bharathi : (Madras: General): Mine is little ahead of the Bill. I want to enlarge the scope of the Bill. That is my dissenting minute.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Should honourable members go on explaining every remark and every sentence ? It is not necessary.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : No, Sir, I was . . . .
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The honourable member’s note of dissent is in print. He will have his turn if he wants to offer any explanation. It is no good going on interrupting a speaker and other honourable members also by simultaneously standing up.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : May I say, Sir . . . .
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I have heard the honourable member sufficiently.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : On a point of personal explanation, Sir ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Order, order.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : Sir, I would not give Mr. Bharathi the trouble of explaining his viewpoint before the House. I myself present his view point. The note of Mr. Bharathi is that he is no way against the fundamental principles of this Bill. He wants that as a logical consequence the women must be given the right that all these women who own limited estates, he wants that they at once be made absolute owners. I am correct, I think.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : I am not permitted to reply.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The honourable member Pandit Bhargava may go on.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : For this very reason Sir, I was submitting that a number of members of the Select Committee have