240 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Shri Hari Vishnu Kamath, Shri S. N. Mishra, Shri L. Krishnaswami Bharathi, Shri Surendra Mohan Ghose, Shri Krishna Kant Vyas, Shri M. L. Dwivedi and the Mover, with instructions to report by the end of the third week after the commencement of the next session of Parliament.”
Pandit Maitra (West Bengal) : What will be the quorum?
Dr. Ambedkar : The quorum, I understand, is provided by rules, namely, one-third.
Sir, this Bill, as members must have noticed, is a very long Bill and contains 163 clauses. It would take me much beyond the time that is available now for the consideration of the motion, if I were to enter upon a full and complete description of the various provisions contained in these 163 clauses. This Bill has already been in the hands of Members of Parliament for at least three or four days and I am sure that they must have found time to go over the clauses of the Bill and to understand the main purport of the clauses incorporated therein. I do not think, therefore, I am called upon to give an exhaustive expose of the matters included in this Bill. I, therefore, propose to be very brief.
The House will recall that at an earlier Session of the Parliament a Bill for the Peoples Representation Act, 1950, was passed by this House. That Bill dealt with the following maters : (1) allocation of seats between the different States for their representation in the lower Chamber and the upper Chamber; (2) delimitation of constituencies for the purpose of the election to the House of the People and to the Legislative Assembly of the various States; (3) qualifications of voters at such elections and (4) preparation of the electoral roll and constituencies.
The following matters were left out, namely, (1) qualifications and dis-qualifications for candidates to and for the members of the legislature; (2) the actual conduct of elections; (3) corrupt and illegal practices; (4) the definition of election offences and (5) the constitution of the Election Tribunal for the purpose of deciding election disputes.
I should have been very happy myself if the provisions of the last Bill and the provisions contained in this Bill had