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Sir, I want to move all the amendments in List No. 10. They are only a corrigenda.
* Shri A. Joseph: ……………In the interest of the organisation to which I belong and in the interest of the Government I appeal to the House to provide plural member constituencies with distributive voting without reservation. If the Law Ministr is not in a position to agree then I oppose his motion and I would ask you to record my disagreement with the proposal for single member constituencies without giving any facilities for th minorities.
Dr. Ambedkar: I cannot accept the amendments.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Were similar plural member constituencies created in the U.P. ?
Dr. Ambedkar: No, Sir. Nowhere has an exception been made.
W EST B ENGAL O RDERS
** Dr. Ambedkar: With regard to the West Bengal Order, I am prepared to accept the following amendments:
Consolidated List No. 2—Parts 1 to 6 of Shri Samanta and Shri B. K. Das.
Supplementary List No. 1: Amendment No. 1—Parts 1 and 2 and Amendment No. 2—Parts 1 to 8 of Shri Himatsingka and Mr. Haq, as modified by Supplementary List No. 5, Amendments 1 to 4 of Shri Jhunjhunwala and Shri Sinha.)
I withdraw amendments Nos. 4 and 12 to 15 from the Supplementary List No. 3. The rest of them I move.
Shri Chattopadhyay (West Bengal) : I would like to move the amendment appearing in Supplementary List No. 2, It covers 108 items, of which I do not want to press item No. 30.
*P. D., Vol. 13, Part II, 9th June 1951, p.10548.
** Ibid., p. 10554.