DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 455
- HINDU CODE— contd.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I have to inform honourable Members that the following dates have been fixed for receiving nominations and holding elections, if necessary, in connection with the following Committees, namely :—
Date for Date for
nomination election
All India Council for Technical Education
Committee to review the working of the 2-4-49 5-4-49
Railway Convention.
The nomination for these Committees will be received in the Notice Office upto 12 Noon on the date mentioned for the purpose. The elections, which will be conducted by means of the single transferable vote, will be held in the Assistant Secretary’s room (No. 21) in the Council House between the hours 10-30 a.m. and 1-00 p.m.
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, namely:—
“That the Bill to amend and codify certain branches of the Hindu Law, as reported by the Select Committee, be taken into consideration.”
Pandit Lakshmi Kanta Maitra (West Bengal: General): Sir, before you call upon my honourable friend Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad to continue his speech, I feel constrained to bring to your notice once again the irregular manner in which this motion is being brought to this House from time to time. I think very few of us knew up till yesterday that this Bill was coming up again for consideration. As a matter of fact the House was under the impression that so heavy was the pressure of urgent government business that no day could be found for it; in fact several Members of this Parliament who came over here to participate in the deliberations on this subject went back under the impression that this matter was not going to be taken up again in this session. I can particularly mention an honourable Member, Pandit Govind Malaviya, who came over here and who wanted to speak for a very long period of time, and when he was assured that the matter was not coming up........
- C.A. (Leg.) D., Vol. III, Part II, 1st April 1949, pp. 2211-43.