434 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Dr. Deshmukh: I wonder whether this is all relevant.
Dr. Ambedkar: This Bill was introduced long before the speech was made.
Shri J. R. Kapoor : I would not indulge in any irrelevant remarks. I am trying to bring home to hon. Members of this House that this Bill is absolutely unnecessary. The question obviously would arise in the minds of hon. Members as to why an eminent jurist and an eminent lawyer like Dr. Ambedkar should ask us to enact an unnecessary piece of legislation. I have to prove that it is not the necessity or the propriety of this legislation (Interruption) that has made him to come before us but it is some extranecus considerations which are actuating him to come before us...
Mr. Chairman : Is it the contention of the hon. Member that this Bill exclusively belongs to Dr. Ambedkar? it is a Government Bill.
Shri J. R. Kapoor: Technically speaking, it belongs to the Government but I wonder whether Government or his other colleagues have really applied their minds to this Bill. (Several hon. Members : Oh! Oh!) I am paying a tribute to Dr. Ambedkar that he can easily persuade his colleagues to believe that something like this is necessary and he may persuade them to think—as he must be enjoying their confidence—that they need not so meticulously enter into every little detail of the Bill and they may well depend upon his ability and his prudence.
Mr. Chairman : Is not the hon. Member one of those who consented to the introduction of this Bill in the Parliament?
Shri J. R. Kapoor: I suppose the convention in this House has always been that no Member should stand to oppose the introduction of a Bill. I for one would be happy if hereafter that convention is to be broken and it will be open to hon. Members of this House to oppose even the introduction of a Bill. Anyway, I hope, Madam, it is not your intention to stop me from proceeding further with my speech merely on the ground that since at that time I had not opposed the introduction of the Bill I cannot speak now to oppose it.