150 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
324 of the Constitution. So, there should be some amendment to say that the President shall bring into being such bodies as may be necessary for the delimitation of constituencies. The main idea is that the Election Commission should be the last body which should have anything directly to do with the delimitation of constituencies.
Shri Kamath : In view of the fact that the work envisaged in this Bill has to be undertaken almost immediately, am I to understand that the purport of this amendment is to see that these Committees—Advisory or otherwise—will be constituted immediately ?
Dr. Ambedkar : No. As soon as the other work is ready, they will be constituted.
Mr. Speaker : Hon. Members will see that there must be set up some administrative machinery for making proposals, and that administrative machinery, so far as I see, is the Election Commission.
Dr. Ambedkar : Otherwise, how can Members of the House delimit a constituency ?
Mr, Speaker : I will invite the attention of the House to one thing more and that is this—that though the committees are advisory the amendment says “the Election Commission shall, in consultation with the advisory committees”, not after consultation. That is a big change. But whatever that may be, I put the amendment to the House. It has been sufficiently discussed.
Shri Syamnandan Sahaya : Sir, I just want to bring to your notice that after the President has determined the Parliament is supposed to alter it.
Dr. Ambedkar : I have said so many times that the President will not do anything except in accordance with the law which will be made. How many times am I to repeat it ?
Mr. Speaker : The question is :
“In sub-clause (2) omit ‘after consulting the Election Commission’,”
The motion was adopted,
(Clause 6, as amended, was added to the Bill.— Ed. ).