DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 1303
Shri Syamnadan Sahaya : But every Member who ought to speak should have been allowed to speak. And, sir, you yourself said that you would allow me to move my amendment to make this provision consistent with the clause.
Pandit Malaviya : While a Member is actually in the midst of his speech, I think, the question is even a little different from what it is when normally the question for closure is put. There is some difference.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: But no Member is now speaking.
Pandit Malaviya : This is a matter of sufficient importance. You will find that those who want to speak have not spoken on this point at all. For instance, I have not spoken a word on this point.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Hon. members must remember this point— and it has also been referred to by the Hon. Law Minister—that it is not as if every Member who wants to speak on an amendment or a motion, should be given an opportunity.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : But those who have given amendments ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Then every Hon. Member will submit an amendment so that he may be allowed to speak. That cannot be the criterion. The Chair can be expected to weigh the pros and cons and come to the conclusion whether there has been sufficient debate or not on a particular view-point. It may be that the particular Hon. Member who has tabled the amendment has not pressed it; but some other Hon. Member may have done it, perhaps much more eloquently and forcibly.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad: No, sir.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : It is a question to be judged by a third person, and I feel that there has been sufficient discussion over this matter.
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : The points raised in these amendments are different. It is a quite different matter if the same type of amendments are discussed together. But there are particular aspects of these amendments which have not been pressed and those aspects must be considered. That is one submission as this. We are to decide here and now and once and for all, that texts, customs and usages will be given the go-by. Therefore, the importance of this clause