DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 497
Shri B. N. Munavalli (Bombay States): He is simply repeating the same arguments.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I thought he had concluded that topic. If he has no other topic he may sit down.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : I have other very serious changes. The point I would like to know is for how long the Honourable Law Minister would insist on saying that there are no substantial changes.
Shri Khurshed Lal (Deputy Minister of Communication): Till you have finished.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Does the honourable Member with his experience as a lawyer ever expect the mover of a Bill to admit that what he has done is wrong ?
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Sir, I bow down to this weighty observation of yours. But this is not a law court for us to take sides. It is a Legislative Assembly where we have no sides. We may express our opinions honestly but we do not take sides for the sake of fees: we are not committed to one side or another. I submit that in the Legislature, a Law Minister responsible to the Legislature should make it his duty to make an admission if he is wrong. I therefore have a faint hope that this accumulation of errors, of changes, would induce in a slight degree the Law Minister to admit that he had made substantial changes and thereby to make further progress of my argument absolutely unnecessary. But in view of the fact that the honourable the Law Minister stands to his gun like a good fighter—he has been a fighter all his life and he is famous for his grit and moral quality— as he stands to his gun, I have to submit to him more and more changes just with a faint hope to induce him ultimately to concede.
Shri Khurshed Lal : I do not wish to interrupt, but is it his intention to go on in this-manner till he has made the Law Minister admit that he has made a mistake ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Why the Law Minister alone ? Possibly other Members also agree with him for he has carried the House with him.
Shri B. Das : How do you say so, Sir ? We can howl him down.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : It is not so very easy. Sir, I have been threatened with being howled down. I am yet to see a Member who can howl me down here—I have yet to see him. I respectfully invite anyone to howl me down. He will find that I do not even require the microphone to be heard in the House in the midst of howlings.