528 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
on this subject and I think I shall be able to satisfy the House on this point.
Shri Bhatt: What I have suggested does not concern the officers and persons holding administrative posts but only the ordinary run of employees known as the officials.
Dr. Ambedkar: It is very difficult to make a distinction between मामूली कर्मचारी and बडे़ कर्मचारी .
There is one other question and that is with regard to the use of symbols. The Select Committee has decided that religious and national symbols shall not be used. Our friend, Mr. Das, and then Mr. Man and Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee differ. Mr. Das is in favour of the provision but he wants to extend it. He said that there might be colourable imitations of the prohibited symbol and since they were only colourable and not actual it might be possible for members of the political party to get round this particular provision. Well, as I said. I do not know whether I can find any suitable words to prohibit colourable imitation. I have not as yet found any suitable expression to overcome that difficulty. Our friend, Mr. Man and Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee object to it. They say symbols should be permitted.—the Hindu Mahasabha should have its own flag to carry on the election compaign. I think that the provision in the Bill as reported by the Select Committee is a very sound one, because I think that elections ought to be conducted on issues which have nothing to do with, for instance, religion or culture. A political party should not be permitted to appeal to any emotion which is aroused by reason of something which has nothing to do with the daily affairs of the people.
Shri Kamath: What about political emotion ?
Dr. Ambedkar: Political emotion—enthusiasm—is all right, but I think that any emotion other than political emotion should not be permitted. Therefore, this is a good provision and the suggestions made are unacceptable to me,
Then I come to the last point in the Select Committee’s Report which I know has caused a great deal of heart burning i.e. with regard to the return of election expenses—what