534 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Shri Sidhva: I think it is a healthy suggestion that you have made.
Shri Gautam: It will be very difficult for the House to decide whether there is some connection between one clause and the other. If you introduce this, then the tyranny of the majority will start not today, but tomorrow. Therefore, as protector of the privileges of this House, and especially of the minorities, I would request you not to introduce this novel procedure.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Let me not be misunderstood. I have nothing to say against the majority or the minority. I have only made an appeal to the House irrespective of the question of majority or minority.
Shri Kamath: It is very gratifying to hear Mr. Mohanlal Gautam talk of the interests of the minority.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: At any rate, I hope Members will bear my observation in mind and try to conclude before the end of the day.
Shri Gautam: I congratulate the Government for introducing the Bill, although after a long time. There is a general impression in the country and also outside created by the opponents of the Congress and other interested parties that the Congress does not want to hold the elections. I think the Government has got its difficulties; the Provincial Governments have got their problems. But I can assure you of one thing and that is that the Congress as a political party has never been in favour of delaying the elections.
We do not want to delay the elections because we are afraid of them. We want them to be completed as soon as possible. There are certain difficulties which have prevented
11 A . M . Government from holding the elections earlier. There is in some quarters a lurking suspicion that the elections might be delayed a little further. I, Sir, would request Government that the elections must be held according to the schedule in November-December as announced by the President in his address to this House and no further delay should be brooked.