PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 619
Clause 52. —( Procedure in elections ) .
Amendment made;
In sub-clause (3) of clause 52, for the Words ... the members of the State Legislative Assembly or electoral college concerned” substitute the following:
“the elected members or the members of the State Legislative Assembly or the memembers of the electoral college concerned”.
—[ Dr. Ambedkar ]
Further amendment made.
In the Proviso to sub-clause (3) of clause 52, for the words “the members of the State Legislative Assembly or of the electoral college” occuring in lines 1 and 2, substitute the following:
“the elected members or the members of the State Legislative Assembly or the memembers of the electoral college concerned”.
—[Dr. Ambedkar]
Mr. Chairman: The question is :
“That clause 52, as amended stand part of the Bill.” The Motion was adopted.
Clause 52, as amended was added to the Bill.
Clause 53 was added to the Bill.
Clause 54 was added to the Bill.
- Clause 56. —( Adjournment of poll )
Pandit Munishwar Datt Upadhyay: I have an amendment. No. 389 in the Consolidated List to include the words “on other polls” after the words “such election” in sub-clause (2). I think these three words would be necessary because otherwise you do not define to what election it refers.
Dr. Ambedkar: Election means election under the Act.
Pandit Munishwar Datt Upadhyay: You mean election in respect of the same constituency. Then you have got to say “on other polls”. The sub-clause read :
“and fix the polling station or place at which, and the hours during which, the poll will be taken, and shall not count the votes cast at such election until such adjourned poll shall have been completed”.
“………….. That such election on other polls” makes the thing clear. Otherwise it is ambiguous.
*P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 21st May 1951, pp. 9198-99.