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not, constitutionally speaking validate the membership of the Deputy Ministers and the Ministers of State; it will not remove the disqualification which they have incurred already.
Dr. Ambedkar : With your permission, Sir, I would just like to mention that there is nothing original in this point. It is borrowed from the view of the Patna High Court. But I find both my friend Mr. Tyagi and Mr. Kamath are making this point. The President is not the court; the President may take a very different view from what the court may take.
- Shri Kamath : The Constitution does not make that clear at all. It refers only to Cabinet Ministers, as Dr. Ambedkar said, and that was why the Ordinance was promulgated by the President.
Sir, the next point is this.
Some Hon. Members : It is time for the House to rise.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : hon. Members are giving him a little more time ?
Shri Kamath : Because of the legal points in which my hon. Friend Dr. Ambedkar is interested ..........
Dr. Ambedkar : I am interested only in getting the Bill through.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : The House wants to rise evidently. The House stands adjourned till 2-30.
The House then adjourned for Lunch till Half-Past Two of the Clock.
The House re-assembled after Lunch at Half-Past Two of the Clock.
[ M R . D EPUTY S PEAKER in the Chair ]
Shri Kamath : Sir, the Law Minister is not here.
Shri Sidhva: The Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs is there.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Yes,
*P.D., Vol. 2, Part II, 10th March 1950, pp. 1349-50.