Discussion on the Hindu Code after return of the Bill from the Select Committee (11th February 1949 to 14th December 1950) - Page 481

466 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES

their advice that it should be taken up separately. The Bill was intended to be taken up in parts separately and should be dealt with individually.

Mr. Tajamul Husain : Why don’t you bring amendments to this effect ?

Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : My honourable friend by the interruption means to say “I shall mix up things in any way I like, and it is for you to bring suitable amendments to separate them.”. It is impossible. If you cook meat, fish and vegetables together and ask a vegetarian to separate them by means of an amendment and then take the vegetables alone, that would be to putting the cart before the horse. The Bill has mixed up distinct and separate categories of law into one complete whole.

Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : No, no. There are separate chapters.

Mr. Speaker : The honourable Member is expressing his own view and other honourable Members will have an opportunity of expressing their own views. What is the good of interrupting ? It will only prolong his speech.

Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : The sections of one part have been lifted . from that and placed in another part.

Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : On a point of order, Sir. Am I not entitled to correct, when his statement that it has mixed up different chapters is open to correction?

Mr. Speaker : That way he will be entiteld to correct again. There

Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I am very grateful for this direction. The point is that the definitions and other clauses in each part were absolutely separate. It is easy for any one who has the patience to compare the original Bill presented by Mr. Jogendranath Mandal to the House with the revised Bill to see the difference.

An Honourable Member : Who was Jogendarnath Mandal ?

Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : He was the previous Law Member. If any one compares the old Bill presented by him and the present Bill, it would be easy to see that portions from different parts have been