840 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
An Hon. Member : Who are you to say that ?
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : That is also lately the correct position. Go ahead. Let them shout at the top of their voice.
Mr. Chairman : Hon. members should not go on speaking to each other while sitting. It will create confusion. Let the hon. Member proceed.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : That is why I heartily support the suggestion to make the application of the Code voluntary thereby robbing it of its sting. Then I dare say that if the law is good gradually every one will come to it. I therefore submit that the law should be made applicable to those who are fit for it.
India is a vast sub-continent where there are highly advanced people as also extremely backward people. The law is a good law to hon. Members because it is good to the community from which most of the Members come. It is an advanced law suited to the advanced community from which hon. Members come. But why should it be made applicable to hill tribes, aboriginals and backward people who have no education and who do not even have two meals a day. Why should it be made applicable to them by a stroke of the pen against their wishes ? That is the point which arises out of the suggestions contained in these two amendments. It is experience and not logic that should guide law. I therefore submit that the law should be made applicable to those who accept it and those who are fit for it. Gradually those who are semi-fit for it will qualify for it………..
Shri Khurshed Lal : That is why it is not being applied to you.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : I agree that I am too backward to appreciate the benefits of this law. This law is a jumble. It does not contain much of the Hindu law. It is borrowed from the Muslim law, from the Christian law and borrowed all the worst elements of those laws. Therefore I would prefer to be called a backwardman so as to please my hon. friend Mr. Kurshed Lal rather than be looked upon as civilised and be made to accept a law which is not applicable to me and which does not appeal to me either. The great difficulty is that the Government is committed to a principle rather prematurely and the people outside are against it…………….
Shri Bharati : Who are you to say that ? Who said that ?
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : Just go out and see. If you had gone to the Gandhi Grounds yesterday you would have seen something of that.