PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 517
Dr. Ambedkar : Wisdom is wisdom whether it comes from inside or outside the country.
Pandit Munishwar Datt Upadhyay (Uttar Pradesh) : Are you in agreement with this ?
Dr. Ambedkar: Yes ; I said so. I remember when the Government of India Act, 1935 was framed, this very question was raised whether we should allow the Prime Minister…………
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava (Punjab) : Article 102 is already there; everybody holding an office of profit is disqualified.
Dr. Ambedkar: We have limited that. If anybody becomes a Minister, he ceases to come under that disqualification. I do not want to go into that now. This question apart. I shall answer the query that you put.
Shri Sidhva : Why not incorporate all those things here ?
Dr. Ambedkar: I cannot do all sorts of things in this Bill.
Shri Kamath (Madhya Pradesh) : You were referring to the Government of India Act, 1935. What was it ?
Dr. Ambedkar: I said about the Government of India Act, 1935, because I had been at the Round Table Conference where this very question was raised namely, whether it was necessary to put a limit on the number of Ministers that could be apppointed. The point there was that it might be possible for the Ministry to so expand as to have a large number of people in the Ministry so that the House may be disabled. There were two proposals made. One proposal was that a maximum number should be fixed in the Act, that not more than a certain number of persons could be appointed as Ministers. The second proposal was—I do not know whether the Members would like it or not—to fix a maximum salary for the Ministry as a whole, so that, if they wanted to expand, they could do so by dividing the spoils and lowering the share of each one. Neither suggestion was adopted and it was left to the good sense………….
Seth Govind Das: We can have both.