516 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Shrimati Durgabai (Madras) : Why girls ?
Dr. C. D. Pande rose —
Mr. Deputy Speaker: What is it ?
Dr. Ambedkar: My point is as I said, we have to sail within two limits. One limit is this: that our electoral law should not be such as to deliberately shut out any particular section or any particular community. The second limit is this: the Electoral law must be such that it would maintain an amount of freedom in Parliament. Within these two limits, anybody who has any suggestion to make with regard to the improvement of the provision relating to this particular disqualification will have my sympathetic hearing.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Is there any provision regarding political jobs ? The Hon. Minister was saying that political jobs or contract ought not to be allowed to corrupt Members of Parliament.
Dr. Ambedkar: To that point, my reply is this. I wish very much that we adopted the principle of the British law where there has been a definite limit laid down to the number of Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, Ministers of State, and so on. I hope some day we shall be able to pass legislation of that kind so that Government will not be in a position to increase its supporters by offering political jobs such as Ministers and Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries to anybody in the House. This matter………..
Seth Govind Das (Madhya Pradesh) : Why not have those provisions now ?
Dr. Ambedkar: That cannot be done; that is a matter dealing with Ministerial affairs. I do not know ; perhaps, you may remember that this question was considered at the time when the Government of India Act, 1935, was made. One proposal was ………
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture (Shri Thirumala Rao): That was by a foreign Government.