476 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Speaker : The honourable Member’s point is that changes which he believes to be substantial are made.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I am quite prepared to hear any friend setting out seriatim the changes which he thinks the Select Committee has made. Assuming that certain changes were made by the Select Committee, I would like to know whether that in itself would be a sufficient ground for re-circulation.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Not at all : I never said they were made by the Select Committee.
Mr. Speaker : What I was suggesting to the honourable Member was that assuming that certain changes are of a substantial nature in his opinion have been made, his case is strong enough for pleading and he need not say whether the changes were made out of ignorance or mala fides. The Select committee with an open mind and considering the whole thing could have made the changes. Still he thinks that they are of a substantial nature and, therefore, the Bill should be re circulated. All people need not agree that these changes which he believes to be substantial are necessarily substantial. Opinions may differ.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : The Honourable Minister for Law said that it is for me to show what changes were made by the Select Committee. I have been at pains to show that I am not drawing the attention of the House to changes made by the Select, Committee at all. That is I believe the mistake which is haunting the mind of the Honourable the Law Minister.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Nothing of the kind.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : In fact he has been insisting that the ... changes were made by the Select Committee. The changes I have been mentioning so far are changes made not by the Select Committee but made by the Departmental Committee.
Mr. Speaker : Order, order, there the rub comes in. Whosoever made the changes so long as the Select Committee has accepted them they are changes by the Select Committee and not changes made by somebody else without the knowledge of the Select Committee. He need not make that kind of insinuation or assertion. By whomsoever they were made—even at the instance of a single Member or the Law Minister or the Drafting Committee or anybody else—he should proceed on the assumption that these changes are changes made by