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covenant, agreement or no agreement, understanding or no uderstanding, wherever Parliament has got power, Parliament should exercise it. That would be a different position.
Pandit Kunzru : Surely my hon. friend knows that on the
24th January the Unions of States and the State of Mysore issued a proclamation accepting the Constitution and
3-00 P M saying that the agreements that were inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution were invlaid.
Dr. Ambedkar : Yes. That may be so. As I said we are following really an understanding. Before I go to that, I would like to draw his attention to the fact that he has not adverted to an important point of cluase 2, viz., part ( b ) of clause 2 which says:
“persons belonging to the land forces of a Part B State, when such persons are attached to any body of the regular Army for service, or when the whole or a part of the said forces is acting with any body of the regular Army or is placed at the disposal of the Central Government in pursuance of a notification under section 5;”
Therefore, it is not altogether as though this law places the Forces in States in Part B in a separate water-tight compartment. When the Central Government issues a notification under clause 5, then as soon as the notification is issued, this Act would apply to that part of the Army in Part B States automatically. He will also see that under clause 5 there is power given to the Central Government to see that any particular Part of the Forces in Part B shall for the purposes of this Act be treated as attached to the Indian Army. That also is a direct power of intervention so far as attachment of certain Forces is concerned.
My friend asked why we have not taken direct action. The answer is, to my mind, obvious. He will realize that the Forces in States in Part B were raised under their own individual laws and were not raised under any Act of the Central Government. The condition on which enrolment was made in Part B States materially differed from the rules and conditions regarding enrolment of personnel to the Indian Regular Army. One important difference was this that the person enrolled in the Indian Regular Army was bound to save anywhere but