PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 571
Clause 12. —( Elections to the House of the People ).
Mr. Deputy Speaker: No amendment is being moved to clause 12.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : I suggest amendment No.
246 may be considered.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: But the Member who has proposed it does not want to move it now. What is the particular importance of it ? It says :
In sub-clause (2) of clause 12, omit the words “in order that a new House of the People may be constituted”.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : We should supply the machinery only, we need not give the purpose behind it.
Dr. Ambedkar: These words do not do any harm.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : I do not give permission to the hon. Member to move this amendment. It is not necessary.
Dr. Deshmukh: Sir. I want to say some thing ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: The hon. Member is always late. What does he want to say now ?
Dr. Deshmukh : Sir, I have given notice of an amendment to clause 15, but I find that at this stage it is relevant. There should be some provision, somewhere to say that the first general elections both for Parliament and for the State Legislatures should be held simultaneously, on one and the same day.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : That is going to be the case, to save expenditure. Subsequently there may be bye elections at different times, because some Houses may be dissolved before others and so on. I do not think such an amendment is necessary.
The question is:
“That clause 12 stand part of the Bill”.
The motion was adopted.
Clause 12 was added to the Bill.