814 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
If Hindu women face some difficulties, the Muslim women also face them. When we have framed such a comprehensive Constitution and set up a uniform economic order for the whole of the country then it is not very difficult to draft such a Bill. Remember, truth is eternal; place, time and person cannot prove obstacle in it. If this principle holds good, then it should be true for all, and if it is not true then it cannot be true for anybody. I think the intention of Government is good. It would be better if that is utilised for the benefit of the whole country. This Bill should be redrafted and introduced here.
I want to submit one thing more, that here we faced the greatest of legal difficulties and complications, all those have been solved and many laws have been passed because of the fact that today the country wants to make progress on the basis of equality and freedom, and is willing to accept all those laws as are based on equality. If a Bill is drafted on this principle and made applicable to the whole of the country surely it would be accepted. This is my view point. But this Bill is not so. Although the Government are very hopeful, it is very good that they are optimist, but they will find many difficulties in getting this bill passed, it will require a three months’ session, even then with great difficulty they will be able to get it passed and then even after that there are many obstacles to be faced. Even if this Bill is got passed we will have to face several difficulties before it is enforced, and we will be involved in legal difficulties. I, therefore, will ask those who have framed this Bill, and especially Dr. Ambedkar, who has laboured hard for it and has worked with firm determination, to broaden their outlook, and with their abilities of legal profession, should make such laws as may be applicable to all Indians instead of Hindus alone. The present minor drawbacks in the Bill would be removed automatically as the path of truthfulness is straight.
[M R . S PEAKER in the Chair ]
I also wish to say this to my hon. sisters that as they want that full justice should be meted out to Hindu women, similarly full justice should also be done to Muslim women and women of other religions. They may argue as to who would accept them. But in Turkey reforms have taken place; it is a Muslim country, and there all have accepted those reforms. As these reforms have been accepted in that Muslim country, similarly here also these reforms will be accepted. Therefore our sisters should adopt the right course and accept these reforms without making any discrimination among themselves. Only then we will be able to get it passed and if it is passed under such circumstances,