608 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: With regard to the other amendment No. 380. I would request you kindly to
10-00 A M suspend it for the time being. After you dispose of clause 45, this amendment will be relevant.
Mr. Speaker: It means that we leave this clause alone and dispose it of after disposing of clause 45.
Dr. Ambedkar: This may be disposed of because that deals with the question of time.
Mr. Speaker: Then, I take up clause 45 at this stage.
Shri Iyyunni (Travancore-Cochin) : I have an amendment to clause 44.
Mr. Speaker: I will take up clause 45 first and then come to clause 44.
Clause 45. —( Disqualification for being a polling agent ) .
Pandit Manishwar Datt Upadhyay (Uttar Pradesh) : I have an amendment No. 381.
Mr Speaker: It is a negative amendment, he may appose the clause when the clause is put.
- Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava: We have only lists 1 to 6.
Mr. Speaker: Lists 1 to 7 have been consolidated. Supplementary List No. 1 contains the remark “Incorporating List Nos. 7”. this is No. 112 on page 18.
Shri Iyyunni: What I submit is that in the case of a polling agent, he has very little work to do ? He has to come there early in the morning and stay there till six or seven o’clock in the evening and watch the proceedings. If there is any case of false personation etc., he has to examine whether the persons actually coming are the persons entitled to vote. That is his work. There is no need to ask him to satisfy all the conditions that are required of a candidate, who, if he succeeds, would go either to the Assembly or the Parliament as the case may be. I submit that it is enough if he is a voter. That would meet the requirements of the case. I therefore submit that my amendment may be accepted by the Hon. Law Minister.
*P.D., Vol. 12, Part II, 21st May 1951, p. 9179.