384 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Dr. Ambedkar: Well, I am prepared to accept yours, if you like. I do not think any further reply is necessary from me if the House is satisfied with the deletion of the words “or of the Supreme Court”.
Mr. Chairman: I shall now put the amendments to the House. (Prof. Shah’s amendment was negatived.)
- Mr. Chairman: The next is seeking to omit the words “or of the Supreme Court” . It is the same amendment that Dr. Ambedkar has proposed.
Shri Jawaharlal Nehru: It is exactly the same.
Shri Kamath: But I have moved it and Prof. Shah has also moved it.
Mr. Chairman: The amendment is there and I am bound to put it to the House.
An hon. Member: It may be withdrawn.
Prof. K. T. Shah: Why should I withdraw it ?
Mr. Chairman: The qustion is:
In page 4, lines 8 and 9, omit “or of the Supreme Court”.
The motion was adopted.
Mr. Chairman: The question is :
In page 4, after line 9, add:
“Provided that such Chief Justice or other Judge of a High Court shall acquire citizenship of India within three months of such appointment; and provided that no one who is not a natural born citizen of India shall be appointed Chief Justice or Judge of the Supreme Court of India.”
The motion was adopted.
** Dr. S. P. Mookerjee: This, as the Prime Minister has said, is a consequential change. Apparently, it refers to the Hyderabad Regulations which the House incorporated on an
- P. D., Vol 12, Part II, 2nd June 1951, p. 10024. **Ibid., pp. 10035-36.