1170 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Chairman : I do not want Hon. Members to go on interrupting throughout the length of the debate.
Shri Bhatt : These are sweets which can stay for days together.
Dr. Ambedkar : Regarding the other part of the option, namely that it should be left to the States, in one aspect I have already dealt with it. Suppose some States enact such laws and some States do not, the chaos to which I have already referred would be there and I do not think we could allow any such option to States which would result in chaos in such fundamental matters as marriage and divorce. In this connection I should like to say this that although it is true that the Rau Committee did not visit the Part B States, still when the informal conference took place, I did take care to invite certain representatives of the Part B States. One of them was the Chief Justice of Saurashtra, the Advocate-General of Mysore, I think, was there ...
Shri Bhatt : How is it that the Chief Justice of Saurashtra is taken to represent Part ‘B’ States ? He was in the service of the State.
Dr, Ambedkar : He knows the conditions prevailing there).
We have done that. Now I come to the question of the Sikhs. My friend, Syamnandan Sahaya has gone away somewhere ...
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : I am here, very much so, Dr. Ambedkar.
Dr. Ambedkar : Now I come to the question raised by my friend, Mr. Bhopinder Singh Man. His amendment is that this Bill should not be applied to the Sikhs. Well. I have nothing personality to say about this amendment because his amendment is not in any sense solitary as compared with the other amendments which have been tabled by our friend, Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad omitting the Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, and so on. It is perfectly legitimate for anybody to put. forth his view point, but I think the Hon. Member will allow me to say that the tone of his speech was to me very repugnant and I think hurt me a great deal.
Sardar B. S. Man : rose—
Mr. Chairman : I do not want Hon. Members to go on interrupting him.
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : If the Hon. Minister indulges in such remarks against those who oppose the Bill, we are entitled to interrupt him.
Mr. Chairman : Order, order.