450 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Chairman : The honourable member will be perfectly right if he criticises the Bill as it has emerged from the Select Committee and points out the changes made. He will confine his remarks to the changes that have been made in the Bill.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I am going to submit to the House that some changes have been made, some serious changes have been made.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Point them out. I am awaiting to know the changes made. The honourable member may take his own time, but let him tell us what the changes are.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I will proceed in my own way.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : He cannot go on in this manner.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I submit that the original Bill was introduced by Mr. Jogendra Nath Mandal. It bears the printing date 1st, August 1946. This was the Bill which was sent to the Select Committee. A Bill printed on 16th August 1948 is the Bill that came out of the Select Committee with the report.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : What is the point on that ?
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I am coming to that. There are serious discrepancies between these two Bills.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : That is what we are waiting to know.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : If this is accepted I will proceed to the vital points. There are serious discrepancies between the original Bill and the Bill that has been appended to the report of the Select Committee. ( Interruptions ) This is not the best way of quickening my pace. I submit that in between these two Bills, a very interesting document came in. It is a departmental draft which was printed on 17th July, 1948. It is this draft which came in between the two. All the points of order raised and argued were about this departmental draft Even in the present discussion, if I understood the Honourable the Minister of Law rightly, he mentioned nothing about this departmental Bill, but said that all the changes were made by the Select Committee and not by him. I am referring to the Bill dated 17th July, 1948.
Shri Mahavir Tyagi : That was before the date of the Select Committee meeting.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I am grateful to my friend Mr. Tyagi for pointing out that the date of printing, viz., 17th July, 1948, was