PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 421
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE
- Mr. Speaker: I will see what is possible in this direction. I do not promise anything.
The House may adjourn now………
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (Punjab) : It will be very difficult to finish the Bill by 1 o’clock. If the work is not finished by 11 o’clock. I have never seen a Bill being guillotined.
Mr. Speaker: If there is no agreement. If there is agreement certainly, we can finish.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: I would therefore beg of you to give more time to come to an agreement.
Mr. Speaker: If the hon. Members are so agreed that they will finish the whole Bill by 1 o’clock, they may assemble at five minutes to one and finish. I do not mind. The only point is there must be some time limit. We must sit with an effort to finish. Otherwise, the discussions will be unending.
The Minister of law (Dr. Ambedkar): I do not know what the arrangement is.
Mr. Speaker: We are now adjourning and meeting again at 11-30.
Dr. Ambedkar: My view is this. That may not prove to be an easier solution. Therefore, the suggestion that I was making was this. I should be prepared to get on with some of the clauses about which there is no dispute at all. There is one clause, only one I think about which there is not yet any agreement. I am afraid it will take a pretty long time to reach an agreement. I thought the better course would be to proceed with the clauses about which there was no dispute at all. There, we shall see whether after a short adjournment, we are able to reach an agreement or whether we would require postponement of the consideration of that particular clause to some other date.
- P.D., Vol. 12, Part II, 28th May 1951, pp. 9476-77.