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proposals as to the delimitation of constituencies in that State under sections 6, 9 and 11 or such of these sections as may be applicable and submit proposals to the President for making the orders under the said sections.
(3) Every order made under section 6, section 9, section 11 or section 12 shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and shall be subject to such modifications as Parliament may make within twenty days from the date on which the order is so laid.”
Now, the responsibility of finally determining the constituencies is cast upon these Committees and consequently it is the recommendation of the Committees that will become operative. That being so, the old provision which required consultation with the Election Commission is unnecessary. That is why I am omitting those clauses.
Mr. Speaker : Amendment moved :
“In sub-clause (2), omit ‘after consulting the Election Commission’,”
Pandit Balkrishna Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) : On a point of clarification, Sir, the doubts raised by my hon. friend Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava that different Committees which the Hon. the Speaker may appoint consisting of three to seven Members may make different recomendations in regard to different States and therefore there may not be uniformity have not been answered. How is that contingency provided for?
Dr. Ambedkar : The reply is very simple. The work of the Committees both in respect of Parliamentary constituencies and State Legislature constituencies will be governed by the law which, as I said, Parliament would be making hereafter. So, they would not be acting independently.
Dr. Deshmukh (Madhya Pradesh) : Sir, when the Hon. the Law Minister moved to delete the words “Election Commission”, I felt very happy. But unfortunately they are coming in again by way of amendment to clause 13. I am in a very co-operative mood today and am prepared to take the most sympathetic view of the whole situation, but I would urge that the Election Commission should be absolutely kept apart from the work of the delimitation of constituencies. This is a body which has come into existence as a result of the Constitution and its functions have been determined by article