374 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
*HINDU MARRIAGES VALIDITY BILL
E XTENSION OF TIME FOR PRESENTATION OF R EPORT OF S ELECT C OMMITTEE
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (East Punjab : General): I move:
“That the time appointed for the presentation of the Report of the Select Committee on the Bill to provide that marriages between Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and their different castes and sub-castes are valid, be extended upto the 25th March, 1949.”
The date given here on the order paper is 11th March, but with your permission I would like to amend it to 25th March as the honourable the Law Minister will be out of Delhi and he will not be able to devote much time to it. Therefore I move the motion with this amendment.
I want to say that I am very anxious that this Bill may be put before this House this session and therefore I request the honourable the Law Minister and the authorities in charge of this Bill to kindly see that the Select Committee makes its Report by the 25th March. I also beg the House to supplement my request to the authorities so that, as the Bill is a very important one, it may be passed this session.
Shri R. K. Sidhva (C. P. and Berar : General): The matter is entirely in the hands of the Select Committee. What has the House to do in this ? My honourable Friend should request the Select Committee to expedite the Report and I think they will be pleased to do it.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : I want an extension of the date. I want to urge that it is my anxiety that the Law Minister should see that the report is made in time and the House should support me in this.
Mr. Chairman : The question is :
“That the time appointed for the presentation of the Report of the Select Committee on the Bill to provide that marriages between Hindus, Sikhs,
Jains and their different castes and sub-castes are valid, be extended upto the 25th March, 1949.”
The motion was adopted.
- HINDU CODE— contd.
Mr. Chairman : The House will now proceed with the further consideration of the Hindu Code.
†Shri H. V. Kamath (C. P. and Berar : General): Mr. Chairman, when this House adjourned on Friday afternoon the name of Shri Krishna was on my lips. I was saying that even so far as the highest goal of human existance is concerned man and woman have been placed on an absolute footing of equality by Shri Krishna in the Gita. The Gita to the Hindus is the sacred smriti, the supreme shastra, the
- C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. II, Part II, 28th February 1949, pp. 940-56
† Ibid, pp. 941-50.