1216 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
is opposed to public policy shall not be valid. In this respect also, I find that the Hon. Law Minister has, in his clause, embodied the law as it is. Moreover, it we go on making an exception in favour of all sorts of customs, what would be the basis and justification for this codification. Codification is mainly done to introduce uniformity and certainty. If we make exceptions in favour of customs prevailing in families, in different territories, etc., there would be no uniform law for the whole country, and the whole object of codification would be defeated. The second object of codification is that there will be something handy to which everybody can refer, with certainty. If we make exceptions in favour of customs, etc., this certainity would have gone. Therefore from any point of view, I see no reason why this clause should not be passed as it is, and why any amendment should be accepted.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I will now call upon the Hon. Law Minister.
Babu Ramnarayan Singh (Bihar) : Sir, I have also to say something.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : But has not enough been said already ?
- Shri Bhatt : (English translation of the Hindi Speech). I have got an amendment.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Which is your amendment ? I have disallowed it.
Shri Bhatt : You have allowed it.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : But there is no particular charm about it. It is only a matter of recasting the word slightly.
Shri Bhatt : That I am to explain as to why I was putting it. I am not moving it simply for recasting of the words.
Babu Ramnarayan Singh : I kept standing for long.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : What should I do ?
Shri V. J. Gupta (Madras) : Sir, I do not want to make a speech, but I want to get a doubt cleared.
Babu Ramnarayan Singh : Your eye should have caught me.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : It does not mean that just because an hon. Member stands a number of times he catches my eye. I must have some discretion in regulating the debate, and I might call upon certain Members and not certain others. But if there is yet time, we shall see.
- P.D., Vol. XV, Part II, 21st September 1951, pp. 3014-54.