DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 1131
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I leave it to hon. Members themselves.
Pandit Malaviya : I said about another matter yesterday that when my sister makes the rules, we will have to submit to many things from which fortunately we are free at the moment.
Shrimati Durgabai: This is already in the rules.
Pandit Malaviya: What I was intending to say was......
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Under the rules, so far as Finance Bills are concerned, I can set a limit. With respect to other Bills there is no provision for setting a time-limit on speeches.
Shrimati Durgabai: My point is that once the Chair has given its ruling......
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Not ruling.
Shrimati Durgabai: ......would the hon. Member be permitted to go against that ruling ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: It is not to be interpreted to be a ruling. It is only a suggestion.
Incidentally, I forgot that I will have to put the amendments to the vote of the House. Therefore, if the hon. Member would restrict himself to two hours, thus making half an hour available for the Chair, I shall call upon the Hon. Law Minister at 11-30 so that we may finish this clause and all the amendments on it before we rise for the day. The hon. Member may take two hours.
Pandit Malaviya : I am very grateful to you, Sir, for what you have said, but what I was going to say in the beginning was that whatever might have been the arrangement that we had more or less thought we had arrived at......
Mr. Deputy Speaker: He need not labour that point.
Pandit Malaviya: ......since then some esteemed friends, for whose views and opinions most of us in this House have respect and regard, have taken the view that Members of the House should take as little time as possible. As I came into the House just now, it was conveyed to me that I should finish within a matter of minutes. I know that according to the rules one should have the time which he wishes to have and it is very good of you to say that you will stick to that. It is also true that I feel very earnestly that in a matter of such vital importance where things which have come down from millennia are going to be demolished, minutes and hours should not be counted and if somebody has something to say on this issue which