396 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Speaker: Order, order, I may tell the hon. Member that the House will certainly do justice, but to have what one wants is not necessarily justice—though it may be so from one’s own point of view, he has to leave it to the good sense of other people also who have no interest in doing injustice to anyone.
Dr. Ambedkar: There is only one point that I would like to mention in connection with the motion made by my friend, and it is this that the constituency that he proposes will have a total number of electors of 4,43,524 as against the maximum limit of 3,87,929. That objection itself is fatal to his proposal.
Shri P. G. Sen: But it is a plural-member constituency.
Dr. Ambedkar: So that is fatal to his proposal.
Mr. Speaker: So I am going to put the motion of Shri P. G. Sen to vote. (No. 1 in Supplementary List No. 2— Bihar Order). The question is :
[For text of the motion see Amendment No. 1 S. L. 2 printed in Appendix XXXIII, Annexure 1.]
The motion was negatived.
Dr. Ambedkar: Amendment No. 3 part 3 in Supplementary List No. 6, that is the amendment of Shri Jajware as modified by the amendment of Shri S. N. Das.
- Mr. Speaker: Now, I would like the House, at the end of the motions relating to each province, to pass a sort of a motion to the effect that consequential amendments in respect of the order relating to that particular State may be made under the authority of the Speaker, so that the draftsman and the Department will examine all these and set them right. The amendments will be strictly consequential and not substantial.
Dr. Ambedkar: For that purpose I shall be moving a separate amendment conferring upon you the power to permit
- P. D., Vol. 13, Part II, 9th June 1951, pp. 10528-32.