130 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
have been taken into account. The first consideration is that the total number of seats in any Legislative Assembly is not unduly large. The second consideration is that the total number of seats fixed for each State Legislative Assembly is an integral multiple of the State quota in Parliament. The reason for adopting this second rule that the one should form a sort of integral multiple of the other is because by doing so it would be easy to work out the provisions of Article 55. Hon. Members will appreciate that Article 55 provides that notwithstanding the fact that the total membership of the different Legislative Assemblies in the States may be different there shall be equal valuation of the votes cast in the Presidential election. Now, it is quite obvious that this equal valuation would become easier of calculation if we had the total seats in the Legislative Assembly of any State forming an integral multiple of the number of seats for that State in Parliament. That is why the seats have been allotted accordingly. It is, of course, to be remembered that the multiple is not the same in all the cases but the multiple is there. That is how the seats in the Second Schedule have been calculated.
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : Therefore, the State Assemblies have different numbers in different States. It is unlike the Parliament where you have a fixed number.
Dr. Ambedkar : Yes. The maximum is 500 and the minimum is 60, but different numbers may be fixed for different States. There is no uniformity prescribed in the Constitution. We have a wide limit within which we can fix different totals for different States.
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : Could we know what is the basis in the different States ? Say 100,000 voters per seat in Assam; 110,000 in Bihar; 120,000 in U.P. and so on?
Dr. Ambedkar : After I finish my speech, if you put that point clearly to me, I shall be able to explain. So much for the fixation of seats in Parliament and in the Legislative Assemblies of the different States.
Now, I come to registration of voters. The principles adopted for registration of voters for Parliamentary constituencies as