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does not make any alteration in it, then within a prescribed period it should become final. That is one alternative. The other alternative which I am prepared to propose is that when delimitation is undertaken, whoever delimits, there shall be associated with him a Committee composed of Members of this House or of the local State Legislature who are concerned with that particular constituency, so that they may be in a position to give their advice and their judgment to the officer who is engaged in delimitation. ( Shri Tyagi : That is a good idea.) If the House is agreeable to that, there is no need to refer this Bill to a Select Committee at all.
Then, Sir, the other point that remains in the Bill is this. I do not think that I am accusing anybody in saying what I do, namely, that a large part of the heat and vehemence and the general plausible argument that have been engendered have been intended merely to cover a very small point, namely, that most hon. Members are interested in having the number of seats in the State Legislatures increased, but they have not had the courage to say so, except one or two. If hon. Members are only interested in this little point that the number for the U.P. should be increased by 15 or that the one for Mysore should be increased by 1 or that the one for Delhi should be increased by 2, I want to ask whether it is not a matter which we can deal with in this House ? Why bother with a Select Committee ?
Shri Bhatt : You cannot deal with all the details.
Dr. Ambedkar : There are no details. I am myself moving certain amendment changing the figures in the total representation of the various States. If my hon. friends think that I am very miser and meagre and that I am not meeting their demands, well, they can move their amendments right here and the House may decide whether the figure that I suggest is the right figure or whether the figure that they suggest is the right figure. Why send it to the Select Committee ? Where is any other thing in this Bill, I want to know, which the Select Committee can deal with? This is a routine Bill.