560 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
if it means a chowkidar also. With regard to this category. I am afraid the same observations must apply but if my hon. friend means by ‘public servant’ an I.C.S. officer or a higher Civil servant, I think there is a possibility of this danger arising. Most public servants are in possession of certain official secrets which they come to know during the course of their administration. I am not at all prepared to disbelieve the possibility that it may be open for a civil servant after he retires and becomes a member of the legislature to use the secret knowledge which he may possess. Take the next case; a teacher of any school, college or university for one year. Take a primary school in the village. What is his knowledge ? What is his information ?
Sardar Hukam Singh: Are these persons debarred from standing ?
Dr. Ambedkar: That is my main argument. I am coming to that. Therefore, I cannot see much in that. Take the next category, volunteer in a recognised association for social service. Will my hon. friend Sardar Hukam Singh permit for instance, the Mahabir Dal to be a body the membership of which would qualify one to stand ? May I mention the R.S.S. and the Akali Dal ? Some of them are very dangerous associations. It may be that one Government may recognize them and another Government may not recognize them, all these posibilities are there.
Shrimati Durgabai (Madras) : Can they be excluded ?
Dr. Ambedkar: I am coming to that. What I was trying to submit to the House was that none of the categories which have been set out in this amendment are of such a character as to give anybody the impression that the membership of the particular body to which they belong is such as to make them more efficient members of parliament. I am sorry I give a very positive answer to that question. Now the other thing that I wish to say is this : Is there anything in the Constitution or in the present Bill which can prevent an elector from electing any one of the people mentioned here ? Suppose, for instance, there are two candidates, one who is just a voter and is not disqualified under our disqualifications and as