146 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
constituencies mentioned as an appendix or a schedule to an Act that the House might pass. As has been rightly pointed by Mr. Krishnamachari, all that the law is expected to do is to make a “provision” for such and such a thing. That does not necessarily mean that all the details must be settled here, in the House. The House may prescribe the legal machinery by which a certain thing can be done. My difficulty is that, I am not able fully to understand the point of view of those who object. The object of the House seems to be to have an opportunity to express its views. After all, any Bill that comes before the House even in the manner in which the hon. Member has suggested would be prepared by the executive and will come in a ready and cut and dried form. I see that Dr. Ambedkar proposes to move an amendment to clause 13, and hon. Members will note that according to that amendment, whatever is done by the President is subject to such modifications as the Parliament may make. It is, therefore, clear that whatever orders are passed are coming again before the House for its scrutiny and the Parliament will have a statutory right of suggesting modifications. It will not be a matter for which Governement may or may not find time, according to their sweet will. If any modification is suggested by any Member, that modification must come before the House and Government must find time for it.
Dr. Ambedkar : If you will permit me, Sit, I am going a step further. The Parliament cannot merely do this postmortem, so to say, at the fag end but what I am saying is that I shall bring in a Bill in which all these matters will be dealt with by law and Parliament will have an opportunity to express its opinion upon it. It is a much greater opportunity that I am proposing. Not having considered this matter properly and thorougly I am not in a position to commit myself one way or the other. But whatever the system of the electorate, whatever the basis of voting, whatever the qualifications or disqualifications of the candidates, all those matters will be dealt with by a Bill which Government will bring forward here long before the operation of clauses 5 and 6 will come about…………..