746 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
duties, therefore she has not enough work to keep her busy in the house.
[At this stage, Mr. Deputy Speaker (Shri M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar) resumed the Chair.]
The State should provide occupation for their leisure hours, give them useful and constructive work to do. Legislation like this and divorces would not root out the evils that you want to eradicate. Before destroying the joint family, the State must provide for old-age maintenance, illness allowance and several other things. If the pious duty is gone a mere charge on property would not do. The effects of this legislation, so far as I can think out, will be further fragmentation, love and sympathy, eliminated divorce and partition courts in larger numbers, female infanticide promoted, and care and attention of children neglected.
Shri V. I. Muniswamy Pillay : rose —
Shri B. Das (Orissa: General): Sir, are we continuing till 7 O’clock..
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I have no objection to sit till 7 o’clock. What is the general sense of the House?
Some Honourable Members : No. no.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi (Madras : General) : Sir, we can sit as long as there is a quorum.
Some Honourable Members : No, no.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I have heard sufficiently. One voice cannot multiply itself into many. How long is the hon. Member likely to take?
Shri V. I. Muniswamy Pillay (Madras : General): About fifteen minutes.
Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi : Sir, the idea is to give opportunities to as many Members as would want to speak. It is rather surprising that people don’t want to speak. I suggest that we sit as long as people are ready to speak and we are here to hear and when there is no quorum we will automatically stop.
Shrimati Purnima Banerji (U.P. General): The argument forwarded by hon. Members is that many members want to speak
5 P. M. on such an important measure as the Hindu Code. When there are so many of us who are willing to say what we want to say and can be accomodated what is the objection to sitting till seven?