DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 447
Shrimati Renuka Ray : On a point of order, Mr. Chairman. Are matters which happened in the Select Committee, are those details allowed to be brought up in this manner?
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : With regard to this point of order, I have already to submit that. . . .
Shrimati Renuka Ray : It is a point of order which I would like you, Sir, to decide.
Mr. Chairman : I think there is no point of order. It is only Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad’s inference that the Select Committee did or did not do such and such a thing. I think the honurable member will not cast any aspersious on either the Select Committee or the members of the Select Committee. He may advance his arguments.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : The manner in which the Select Committee behaved is certainly open to the criticism of the House.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I submit. ....
Pandit Lakshmi Kanta Maitra : You are right, Mr. Chairman. Without casting aspersions he may advance agruments.
Shrimati Renuka Ray : But he is casting aspersions.
Mr. Chairman : They are at best inferences.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Sir, my inference is that members of the Select Committee were definitely assured by the Honourable Minister
Shrimati Renuka Ray : I object to this Sir. This is casting aspersions. These inferences are casting aspersions.
Mr. Chairman : Every honourable member is at liberty to draw his own inference.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I submit, Sir, it can be contradicted at once by any member of the Select Committee.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi: No; certainly we cannot con tradict. But since you are inviting a contradiction, I as a member of the Select Committee, do contradict. I say that we went through the whole thing and we were satisfied that
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : You are making a statement
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : You wanted a contradiction. And I contradict.
Shrimati Renuka Ray : Mr. Chairman, I would like to say that because inferences are made and aspersions are cast, the members