382 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 does not deal with abolition of zamindaries, but says that transfer shall not take place between certain classes.
Dr. Ambedkar: The answer of the House is that these Acts shall be validated by the Constitution without the necessity of adaptation. I am bound by the decision of the House. This point should have been raised yesterday.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad: I raised that very point yesterday, but you rejected it.
Shri Rajagopalachari: Further questions may be postponed to the interpellation programme, and the present clause may be got through.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: We have had sufficient discussion.
The question is:
“That clause 12 stand part of the Bill.”
The House divided: Ayes, 232: Noes, 9.
* Prof. S. L. Saksena: It hurts me very much that this amendment should be made to our Constitution. After all, when we framed our Constitution we were very careful to see that our judiciary is above suspicion and that it is independent and able to interpret the Constitution in the best manner possible. Still we have found the Law Minister accusing the Supreme Court the other day of having wrongly interpreted the purpose of one of the provisions. The Prime Minister also has been saying that the intention of the makers of the Constitution has not been brought out by the interpretation of the judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Courts. I think this is a very unfair criticism : if the Supreme Court judges who have given these rulings were foreigners probably there might have been some suspicion, that they were not patriotic and therefore did not interpret our laws correctly. I personally feel that if you...
- P. D., Vol 12, Part II, 2nd June 1951, pp. 10020-21.