518 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Pandit Munishwar Datt Upadhyay : Could you limit the number of Ministers under the Constitution ?
Dr. Ambedkar: The House can.
The Minister of State for Transport and Railways (Shri Santhanam): If cannot; please read the Constitution.
Dr. Ambedkar: I am very sorry; I should think that we can. There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent that. All that the Constitution says is that there shall be a Council of Ministers to advise the President. It does not say how many Ministers there will be.
Shrimati Durgabai: On a point of order, Sir…………
Mr. Deputy Speaker: The hon. Member is on a point of order. Will the Hon. Minister give way?
Shrimati Durgabai : On a point of order, Sir, may I know whether the Hon. Minister is making any insinuation against the Government that whenever they appoint more Ministers or Deputy Ministers they are appointing them only to disable the House ?
Dr. Ambedkar: I am replying to the Chair. I wanted to drop the thing; it was Mr. Kamath who wanted me to say something.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I do not think there is any insinuation.
Dr. Ambedkar: I hope my hon. lady friend is not intending to create bad blood between myself and the Ministry.
I come to the next question. The second proposal is that the Princes should be declared to be disqualified for being chosen as Members. The point is made by my hon. friend Mr. Raj Bahadur—I hope he is here—and his friends.
Shri Raj Bahadur (Rajasthan) : I am here.
Dr. Ambedkar: Mr. Rama Rao has appended a separate minute of his own. The ground which has been urged by Mr. Raj Bahadur and his friends is that the Princes are holders of Office of profit. It seems to me that if that contention