1028 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Shri J. R. Kapoor: Do I take it that the electoral rolls of rural areas of Delhi with regard to the next General Elections are being published also in English ?
Dr. Ambedkar : Which rural area and for what purpose ?
Shri J. R. Kapoor : For the General Elections in the rural areas of Delhi.
Dr. Ambedkar : For the General Elections to Parliament they are printed in the regional language, as I just now said. Where the area is a composite area it is published also in some additional language.
Shri J. R. Kapoor : May, I know whether with regard to the electoral rolls for the next General Election to Parliament the electoral rolls relating to the rural areas of Delhi State are going to be published in English also in addition to Hindi and Urdu ? If so, will the Hon. Minister be pleased to state how many people are there in the rural areas of Delhi State who know English only ?
Dr. Ambedkar : It is not published in English only. It is published in three languages. As I said, the electoral rolls in Delhi for the ensuing General Elections to the House of the People have in fact been published in three languages English, Hindi and Urdu. Any voter may pick up any particular roll with which he is familiar.
Shri J. R. Kapoor: What was the language of the electoral rolls of the Delhi State in the last General Elections ?
Dr. Ambedkar : It must be the regional language and so far as I remember the old rule was also the same as now.
Shri J. R. Kapoor: What was considered to be the regional language at the time of the last General Election in the Delhi Rural Area?
Dr. Ambedkar : I am not quite familiar; probably it might have been Urdu. There is now an improvement.
Shri Hussain Imam : Is it a fact that there are no rural and urban constituencies separately in the State of Delhi ?
Dr. Ambedkar : I am not sure. I have not seen the constituencies as framed by the various committees that were appointed by this House.