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rule. But today the Harijan Community as a whole is being benefited and our representatives who occupy the seats on Treasury Benches, as Shri Sonavane has stated, by exercising their pressure upon the Government can get many things done for us. But putting the Government in disrepute and working against the Government would not, except bringing ruin to us, in any way prove beneficial to us. Dr. Ambedkar is a great scholar. I pray God to give him wisdom so that he may not utter such words as may prove our community to be ungrateful. He has played so many stunts in his life that I suppose this also to be one of them. Who knows this may also be an act of trickery as Bhagwan Shree Krishna used to show! God save us from these lilas of trickeries. We cannot turn ungrateful towards the country in which we have taken birth and whom we have served to the best of our ability. There was a time when we were asked to change our religion. But thousands and lacs of us showed to the world that even at the cost of our own heads we will not go against the land, where we have been born and give up the religion which we have adopted. We can sacrifice our lives but we cannot give up our dharma. In the end I have only to say......
Mr. Speaker: Order, order. I can appreciate the hon. Member’s keenness to speak out his heart, but then, I am afraid, we are trying to introduce, on the floor of the House, some other subject which will be discussed better outside. At present, we are concerned with this Bill. A few preliminary remarks is something different, just to impress upon the House, if at all any such thing is necessary, the fact that the Scheduled Castes should be given special consideration. But beyond that, let us not enter into any political or other controversies which may or may not have been started outside the House; let them be carried on outside the House. I earnestly request every Member in the House not to go beyond the strict scope of the Bill. I did not want to interfere with the hon. Member’s speech, nor do I want to put his enthusiasm and his feelings at a lesser value. He will confine himself now to the merits of the case. I was just watching when he was really coming to the merits of the case.