1014 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Shri Kesava Rao : May I know whether the Government has received any representations from the minority communities for having plural Member constituencies for them ?
Dr. Ambedkar : May I know what complaints have been received by the Election Commission, but I may say that I have received various representations relating to that matter.
Dr. Deshmukh : May I know if the complaints of castes which have been omitted from the President’s Order for the first time are going to be considered by Government ?
Dr. Ambedkar : It cannot be considered now. The provision in the Constitution is that whereas the Order is made by the President enumerating the various castes and tribes, the Government is excluded from any further action. The matter is left for Parliament to be death with.
Shri Tyagi: When does the Hon. Minister propose to introduce the People’s Representation Bill in its final shape and place the electoral rules before this House ?
Dr. Ambedkar : The Bill certainly I am placing before the House during the course of this session, but I do not know what my hon. Friend means by “rules”.
Shri Tyagi: I mean rules of election.
Dr. Ambedkar : Well, I do not know whether the rules of election would be framed unless and until we pass this Act.
Shri R. K. Chaudhari: Is it a fact, Sir, that the population as determined by the hon. the President has been open to very serious objection on the ground that the determined population has been less in some instances than the census of
1941 and as it was determined on the number of voters as on the voting list which has been found to be defective, is there any likelihood of the revision of the determined population ?
Dr. Ambedkar : That question ought to be addressed to the Hon. the Home Minister.
Shri Chandrika Ram : May I know how many States have been able to delimit the constituencies for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes ?