492 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
I know, Sir, that it is a tedious business to refer to this but I am discharging a duty and I undertook to supply every Member with a copy of the comparative statement which is in course of preparation. I shall ask the Members to verify each change and I shall be most glad if I am proved to be wrong.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : I hope it shall be supplied free of cost.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : If the Government thinks I am a charitable institution then I shall be glad to deserve the hope.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Had it been supplied earlier all this time would have been saved !
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : The pity is that my printing press is worse than the Government Printing Press.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : If the suggestion had been made to the Honourable the Law Minister, he would have had it printed.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Certainly, I would have had it printed.
The Naziruddin Ahmad : I have the manuscript ready. I shall be glad if the Honourable the Law Minister would publish it.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Now it would be of no use because you have said the same thing on the floor of the House.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Now we come to Class V of the original Bill. By strange accident—I should be afraid to insinuate anything— everything in it has been omitted in the Departmental Bill. It contains nine classes of heirs and four other supplementary heirs. Thirteen heirs in Class V of the original Bill have been entirely omitted, whether by mistake...
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : Very deliberately !
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : But then why did the report of the Select Committee say that no substantial changes were made ? If these were omitted deliberately, then the only point is whether these are substantial changes. The House has been assured by the Honourable the Law Minister that no substantial changes were made. That these changes were made deliberately is now admitted. The question now therefore is whether these are substantial changes. But we have been assured that no substantial changes have been made.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : That is a matter of opinion.