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have a separate list of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. To that I would repeat my submission made yesterday that article 341 should have been so amended and adapted by the President as to remove this difficulty. This he could have done under article 392. But that argument did not appeal to my Hon. friend Dr. Ambedkar. I am not reiterating that argument today, but even assuming that it is necessary for Parliament to pass a list specifying the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, my original contention does remain, that it is not necessary to provide again in this legislation for the reservation of seats in the House of the People for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes residing in Part C States. This provision is already specifically included in article 330 of the Constitution. Therefore, sub-clause (1) of the proposed section
3A is absolutely redundant.
There is another reason why we should not have this sub-clause (1) of section 3A. It not only specifically provides— unnecessarily—for the reservation of seats but it goes beyond that and fixes the number of scheduled castes representatives in the House of the People on behalf of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes of Part C States. This, I submit, is against the Constitution itself because under clause (2) of article 330 a definite formula has been given as to in what proportion there shall be reserved seats in the House of the People in relation to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Part C States—they shall be in proportion to their numbers. Here the number is absolutely ignored and theoretically speaking an arbitrary number of seats is fixed, one here and one there. May be today we know definitely the specific number of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes living in a particular Part C State of Vindhya Pradesh, Delhi and so on, but we do not know what the situation may be five years hence. Only this morning my hon. friend, Shri Deshbandhu Gupta brought to our notice that quite a large number of persons from different parts of the country, belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, have come over to Delhi and, for aught we know, during the next five years there might be material change in the figures of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the various Part C States mentioned in