798 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Speaker : Let the amendments be moved first.
Shri Tyagi : The amendment seeks to Hinduise the Muslims, which is against the law or Constitution. Everybody has been guaranteed the liberty of practising his religion and to bring the Muslims and Christians also under the Hindu Code will mean interfering with their religion.
Mr. Speaker : Let the amendments be moved.
Shri Tyagi : This amendment has been moved and therefore it is out of order.
Shri Indra Vidyavachaspati (Uttar Pradesh) : I beg to move:
For clause 2, substitute:
“2. This Code applies to all Indians irrespective of their religion, caste or creed”.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : I beg to move:
For clause 2, substitute:
“2. Subject to the provisions of section 1 this Code applies—
(a) to all persons who are Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs by religion ;
(b) to any other person who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsee, or a Jew by religion ;
(c) to every woman who married any person who was not a Muslim, Christian, Parsee or a Jew by religion ;
(d) to any child legitimate or illegitimate one of whose parents was a person who was not a Muslim, Christian, Parsee or a Jew by religion ;
(e) to a convert to any religion except the Muslim, Christian, Parsee or Jew by religion.”
Shri Jhunjhunwala (Bihar) : I beg to move :
For clause 2, substitute:
“ 2. Application of Code— This Code applies to all the citizens of India that is Bharat, irrespective of their caste, creed and irrespective of their belonging to or professing any religion.”
Dr. Ambedkar: I beg to move:
In clause 2,—
(1) in sub-clause (1),—
(i) in part (a), for “ Hindus, that is to say, all persons professing the Hindu religion” substitute “persons who are Hindus by religion” ;