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reservation. That would have also proved that after ten years there would be no difficulty in returning Harijan Candidates when there will be no reservations. With these words I support the Bill. I assure my hon. friend, whether this Bill is there or not, that Harijans in Delhi enjoy an equal status. Most of the disabilities about which he has been complaining may be in existence in his part of the country. So far as these areas are concerned there is no political motive behind the social work done by social reformers like Swami Shradhanand, and late Lala Lajpat Rai and other Aryasamaj leaders. They had dedicated their lives to it and this fact should be recognised while passing this Bill.
Shri Dwivedi: ( English translation of the Hindi speech ). So far as the principles of this Bill are concerned. I support it because for more than once I have made suggestions in this House to provide for the representation in Part C States of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. What I wish to say is that so far as the administration and development of Part C states are concerned, that issue should have been brought in this House even before this Bill was moved. But not realising the significance of that Bill, the Government hurriedly brought forth the present Bill. That goes to show that the Government are not so much keen about the representation of the people and the introduction of necessary reforms for establishing a democratic type of Government, as about this Bill. Anyway, I would support the present measure; but, all the same. I would like to explain a couple of things to the House. In the first place, I would like to say, as the previous speaker Shri Deshbandhu Gupta said in regard to Delhi, that we would have elected Harijan representatives even without this Bill. Then alone could it have been said how generously we treated the Harijans. In Vindhya Pradesh the Congress and the public workers have been treating the Harijans and the caste Hindus alike, and, as Shri Deshbandhu Gupta said, in Delhi they had already got opportunities of representation. In view of the fact that in Vindhya Pradesh untouchability has long been removed from the schools as also in the day-to-day intercourse and that Harijans there are loved by all alike and get due representation, there is no