PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 537
publicity or in carrying the voters to the booths. So far as propaganda and publicity are concerned they would be done by the party to which the candidate belongs. Situated as we are it is very difficult for an individual to stand on his own account: a candidate, I suppose must belong to one party or another and that party will in course of time evolve its own method of working. We might make mistakes in the beginning but just as other people have evolved precise methods of working we too are not likely to fall in devising proper methods of propaganda and publicity. But I do not agree with the Hon. Law Minister that expenses incurred on propaganda on a party basis would be a part of the election expenses incurred by the candidate...
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): I did not say that—I said just the opposite.
Pandit Krishna Chandra Sharma: Then it is all right. The election expenses of a candidate must be confined to expenses incurred with regard to that candidate, which would be incurred mostly by himself, his agent or on his behalf by his friends. So, the question of the expenses coming to large sums, as Prof. Shah fears, will not arise because among other things, the polling booths will be easy of access to all the voters which will eliminate heavy expenses......
*Dr. C. D. Pande (Uttar Pradesh) : Before I take up the provisions of this Bill. I should like to make a reference to the compliment that has been paid by Dr. Ambedkar to the Members of this House. He referred to them as chorus girls.
Dr. Ambedkar: I am sorry. I think it is quite wrong to say that I referred to the House. My observations were of a general character; they had nothing to do with the House at all.
Shri R. Velayudhan: It was not about the House.
Dr. C. D. Pande: If he did not mean that......
Mr. Deputy Speaker: He did not want Members of the House to be mere chorus girls when they are elected.
*P.D., Vol. 11, Part II, 10th May 1951, pp. 8464-65.