156 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Speaker : May I know the reactions of the Hon. the Law Minister?
Dr. Ambedkar : I cannot accept any of these amendments.
Sardar B. S. Mann : What about my amendment Sir ?
What is the Hon’ble Minister’s reaction ?
Dr. Ambedkar : I cannot accept it.
Sardar B. S. Mann : Then I do not move it.
Clause 20
(Meaning of ‘ Ordinary resident’)
- Dr. Ambedkar : I beg to move:
After sub-clause (3), insert :
“(4) Any person holding any office in India declared by the President in consultation with the Election Commission to be an office to which the provisions of this sub-section apply, or any person who is employed under the Government of India in a post outside India, shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident during any period or on any date in the constituency in which, but for the holding of any such office or employment, he would have been ordinarily resident during that period or on that date.”
and renumber the subsequent sub-clauses.
In sub-clause (4), renumbered as sub-clause (5),—
(i)after “sub-section (3)”, insert “or sub-section (4)” ; and
(ii)after “Armed Forces” insert “or but for his holding any such office or being employed in any such post as is referred to in sub-section (4).”
In sub-clause (5), renumbered as sub-clause (6),—
(i) after “sub-section (3)”, insert “or sub-section (4)”; and
(ii) for “sub-section (4)”, substitute “sub-section (5)”;
This amendment is made for the purpose of removing some doubts that were expressed with regard to the application of the term “ordinarily resident” which occurs in clause 20, in
- P. D., Vol. 4, Part II, 20th April 1950, pp. 3081-82.