1268 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
five of them sit together, both the contending parties come and they break some stalk of grass ; and their mutual realtions are broken— this completed the “divorce”. Not a panny as to be incurred on this, nor any botheration. Our Hon. Dr. Ambedkar is a well-wisher of the Untouchables and they too should know that such well-wishers should be shunned. Now all of them will have to go to the district judge for divorce, what a lot of expenditure arid botheration will this procedure mean ? Then alone will divorce be granted.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad (West Bengal) : ……. A decent work for lawyer !
Babu Ramnarayan Singh: Lawyers giving maintenance to lawyers !
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : The Panchayat is being empowered to register the divorce.
Babu Ramnarayan Singh : Well, even if it is in the hands of the Panch, it is right to some extent, but that too will be a Government Post. I assert that the Bill be scheduled. Let this law go to hell and then you will see how easily the entire system work. We have panchayats and panchas; and in our country customs and usages are pliable they will continue to hold good and people would accept them automatically. If any law is formulated or any decision taken, it should be so clear and precise as may be amiably accepted by people, and they may not think of going against it. But the law that is being passed here, is such that people in our country will take pride in breaking it, and will not act upon it. This is nothing but a whim of those who today have gained power. They are obstinacyridden and say that the Bill must be passed somehow. What the country thinks, and what she needs, the Government never worry about it. What is being spent for it here, and what, after all, is its necessity, nobody cares for it: the Government go on spending money lavishly and thus ruin the country ; go on passing baseless and futile laws against the will of the public. I insist upon our Rajaji and Dr. Ambedkar that the Bill be withdrawn : the country does not want it, and the good of the country, good of us all, lies in its being withdrawn. This simply astonishes me that such an injustice is being here where personages like Rajaji are present. There can be nothing more shameful and sorrowful than this.
Sir, I do not want to take more time but I want to request you that the subject is so serious that it needs a proper debate ; and if