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are being made would be such as may ensure that no Government in the country may be able to corrupt the Members of Parliament. This is a welcome thing but some provision should also be there, and I think it is very essential to see that the Government should not be corrupt because if the Government are itself corrupt, they would corrupt the Members also. It will certainly happen. Therefore the aim should be that no opportunity be made available to corrupt them which, in other words, means that there should be no corrupt Government in the country at all.
* Pandit Krishna Chandra Sharma : These allegations are irrelevant in view of the fact that the other party is not here to explain the matter.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: It relates to Congress elections.
Dr. Ambedkar: The matter is now placed in the hands of the Election Commissioner under the Constitution. It is not in the hands of Government.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: The Election Commission has been made supreme and the Select Committee proceedings show that they have given further powers in respect of the notification of the dates and other things both for the general elections as well as the bye-elections. The Election Commission has been made more and more important.
Shri Kamath: He wants to support this salutary change.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: But we are not enquiring into the past. Let him come to this Bill.
** Pandit Krishna Chandra Sharma : ......Then I come to the question of election expenses. As Prof. Shah said, most of the expenses will be incurred either in propaganda and
*P.D. Vol. 11, Part II, 9th May 1951, p. 8415.
**Ibid., pp. 8460-61.