1092 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
will reply. Then I will put all the amendments to the vote of the House so that there may be no difficulty as to whom it applies or whether they should take any further proceedings etc.
Dr. Ambedkar : I just heard that you would call upon me at one o’clock. But I thought that there is some other business at one o’clock. Perhaps you might give me a minute to start.
Shri R. K. Chaudhari : We must know the consequences of marriage and divorce; that is one thing. Then, Sir, you are willing to allow us discuss, about marriage and divorce and all that without knowing what the effect of the marriage would be, whether the issues of the marriage will get inheritance in this way or that way. That will put at a great disadvantage. I am going to contract a marriage and yet I do not know what the consequences are………
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : We are opposed to it.
Shri Deshbandhu Gupta : Are we to take it that the hon. Member is unaware of the consequences of marriage and divorce at this age ?
Shri R. K. Chaudhari : I take exception to this. Sir, I was pointing out........
Mr. Deputy Speaker : In all serious matters, the hon. Member has got a knack of introducing a good feeling of humour. To that extent he has relieved the tension. The hon. Member knows too well that he is directly responsible for all the acts that he commits whether on account of conjugal felicity or otherwise. Now, Sardar Man.
- Sardar B. S. Man : You will sympathise with me, Sir, being a junior Member, for this interruption for so long a time.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The hon. Member may confine himself to the amendment whether this Bill ought to apply or not. He has already said enough.
Sardar B. S. Man : A little allowance due to a junior Member may be allowed to me, Sir. I am exactly in doubt as to what the intention of the Government is. There have been threats of certain reservations, mental reservations regarding moving certain amendments; then there was the explanation by the Prime Minister that they are not proceeding with the Bill except for these two parts because of lack of time. If, incidentally, the House is in a mood to finish it tomorrow, the same position will be there because there will be time to proceed with the
- P.D., Vol. XV, Part II, 19th September 1951, pp. 2861-72.