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constituency of a different class. A teachers’ constituency is a constituency of a different class. Similarly, the local authorities’ constituency is a different class of constituency. Consequently, there does not seem to be any very great anomaly if the name of a person is included in the electoral rolls of different classes of constituencies. Besides, I am really bound to say this : I cannot understand why Members of Parliament are so much exercised over the constitution of the Upper Chamber.
It is an utterly effected body—not even an ornamental one. It has no power—not even power of revision. It is not a body with co-equal authority with the Lower Chamber.
5-00 P . M . Some provinces desired that they should have them. They were probably under the impression that their Second Chamber would be a Second Chamber more or less on the same pattern of the Chamber here, which would have the authority to hold up, if not financial legislation, at least ordinary legislation. But even that power is not there and I do not understand why Members of Parliament, even for the sake of merely maintaining some theoretical principle bother their head about a constitutional body which I say is of no value and no consequence.
Clause 27 was added to the Bill.
Clauses 28 and 29
Dr. Ambedkar : I had assured my friend Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava that I would make a statement on the point in which he is interested and I do now say that we shall take every care to see that the existing electoral rolls are revised and any omissions or additions that are necessary will be made.
Clauses 28 and 29 were added to the Bill.
New Clause 30
Dr. Ambedkar : I beg to move :
After clause 29, add :
“30. Jurisdiction of civil courts barred. —No civil court shall have jurisdiction—
(a) to entertain or adjudicate upon any question whether any person is or is not entitled to be registered in a electoral roll for a constituency; or