480 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
one who reads the Constitution will know that by making reference to a Governor or Rajpramukh, it is quite clear that what is meant is states in Part A or States in Part B. Because, it is only in States in Part A or Part B that you find the institution of a Governor or Rajpramukh. If article 341 also stated in specific terms that the President can issue such a notification in consultation with the Chief Commissioner, undoubtedly, the President could have been presumed to have been empowered by the Constitution under articles 341 and
342 to issue a notification with regard to States in Part C also. Unfortunately, or fortunately, such a clause was not put in article 341.
My. hon. Friend who spoke last asked that I must explain as to why the Constitution did not make any provision giving the President the power to issue a notification with regard to the scheduled castes in Part C States. I think those Members, who took part in the discussion of the various articles when the matter was before the Constitutent Assembly, will recall that this question was a matter of great controversy. Everybody felt that politics might enter into this field, that the President might be advised for political reasons to omit a certain community, that the President might be advised to add a certain community because of its political affiliation. Consequently, we had to draft this article with the greatest care and attention. It was also insisted that once the President had made the order, he should not have the power to alter it, because, there again, politics might enter. This is evident from the fact that in both the articles clause (2) was introduced, because it was felt that once the order was made, if any change was demanded, that change ought to be made in the open House, by the House, with the knowledge of the scheduled caste Members of Parliament. That was the reason why these articles were drafted with such meticulous care.
My point, however, was this. The argument of my hon. friends who said that this Bill was unnecessary is based upon a complete misunderstanding and misreading of article 341. As I stated in my opening remarks, it is absolutely impossible to devise any kind of scheme of reservation for the scheduled castes unless two things are known : who the scheduled castes