PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 391
*** Shri Chaliha:** I also like to press my motion No. 2 in supplementary List No. 2. I do not press No. 1.
In the constitution it is provided that the Shillong constituency will be open as a general constituency. Article
332(6) says :
“No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district of the State of Assam shall be eligible for election to the Legislative Assembly of the State from any constituency of that district except from the constituency comprising the cantonment and municipality of Shillong.”
I think Dr. Ambedkar has accepted this and it is said that was a printing mistake and that it will not be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes but that it will be a general constituency. Through mistake or otherwise it has been reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. It should not be reserved for them. It should be open for the general population. This has been specifically provided in the Constitution as I have already pointed out.
Dr. Ambedkar: I had said that the office has treated it as a printing error and that we propose to issue a corrigendum. Probably it has already been issued.
Shri Chaliha: In that case I would like to withdraw that motion (No. 2 in Supplementary List No. 2 relating to Assam Orders).
The motion was, by leave, withdrawn.
** Dr. Ambedkar: I would like to accept the following amendments :
Consolidated List I—parts 1 and 2.
Consolidated List I—amendments 1 to 4.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: That means 50 per cent. of Mr. Das’s amendments.
- P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 8th June 1951, p. 10503.
** P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 4th June 1951, p. 10510.