524 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
constituency, will you publish the results in the Gazette or will you wait until all the counting has been done in all the constituencies and the result is announced in a consolidated form in one issue of the Gazette.
Seth Govind Das: What would be the use ? will it not be published in the various newspapers ? ( Interruption )
Dr. Ambedkar: I want to understand his minute of dessent. His argument seems to me, and it is not unsound, is that people after all are carried away by what is called the herd instinct. If people had voted in one way in one constituency other people like to do so in their own constituency. It is a psychological point. He felt that if the result of the election in one constituency was announced, which was unfavourable to any particular party, then the other constituency also might say “Our neighbours have voted in one particular way and why make an experiment of voting in some other way. Let us vote in the same way.”
Seth Govind Das: When the counting will take place in the presence of the candidate it would be known to all newspapers and how will you be able to withhold the result ?
Dr. Ambedkar : You cannot. As I said no electoral law can be either foolproof or knave-proof. All sorts of loopholes will remain.
Shri Sarangdhar Das (Orissa) : I had put in the minute of dissent and I have also given an amendment, because there is a possibility of having the general election in some of the States, whereas other States are not ready with their electoral rolls and would like to have the elections sometime later. That is why I want that the results of the earlier elections should be held over until the later elections are over and all the results are announced simultaneously.
Dr. Ambedkar: I was only trying to understand him, because his minute deals with that in a few sentences. No doubt the matter will be considered, because there is something to be said for the point of view he has urged.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: It does not affect any individual election.