1130 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I shall take time to consider it.
- Pandit Malaviya (Uttar Pradesh) : When I left off yesterday, you were good enough to ask me how much more time I would need. I respectfully expressed my inability to indicate any exact amount of time and requested you to let me proceed on the basis that I should try to take as little time as may be possible. You were good enough to more or less indicate a limit, that I should not take more than about
2 [1] / 2 hours more.
Shri Sidhva (Madhya Pradesh) : You said half an hour, Sir.
Pandit Malaviya: I have since heard......
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I can only make one observation. The hon. Member yesterday was encouraged to ask for five days on the suggestion humorously made by the Hon. Law Minister.
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): He wanted five days— I suggested five hours.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: When I was asking how long the hon. Member was likely to take, the Hon. Law Minister humorously said, five days. I was suggesting half an hour, the hon. Member was wanting more. Now what I propose doing is this......
Pandit Malaviya: May I say......
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I will do sufficient justice to the hon. Member. Now how long, may I know, is the Hon. Law Minister likely to take to reply ?
Dr. Ambedkar : It is my intention to be brief, but I would like to cover some of the points raised, and I feel an hour or an hour and a quarter might be more than enough for me.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I propose calling the Hon. Law Minister as soon as the hon. Member who is on his legs finishes. Even if he takes
2 [1] / 2 hours, there will be sufficient time if I call the Hon. Law Minister at 12 o’clock.
Shrimati Durgabai (Madras) : The hon. Member who is on his legs after having mentioned five hours or five minutes or whatever it may be, said that he would submit himself to the ruling of the Chair and you very kindly said that he should not require more than half an hour. After having once submitted to the ruling of the Chair, would the hon. Member be now permitted to retract ?
*P.D., Vol. XV, Part II, 20th September 1951, pp. 2902-18.