PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 621
*Shri Karunakara Menon: I emphasize the words : “to enable a person to vote in a particular manner”.
Dr. Ambedkar: The clause as it is quite all right.
Shri Shiv Charan Lal: If the Hon. Law Minister does not think that these words are necessary, then I do not press it.
As for amendment No. 117, I find that clause 59(d) reads as follows : “the wife of any such person as is referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) to whom the provisions of sub-section
(6) of the said section 20 apply” I do not know why we are giving this right to the wife.
Dr. Ambedkar: Because she may be with him.
Mr. Chairman : Supposing she is not with him, she is not given any right to vote in any other manner ?
** Shri J. R. Kapoor: I beg to move:
After part (e) of clause 59, add the following new part as part (f):
“(f) any person subjected to preventive detention under any law for the time being in force.”
This is one amendment. Another amendment, which I would like to move with your permission. Sir, is No. 396 in the printed list, which has the privilege of standing in your name. I beg to move:
After part (e) of clause 59, add the following new parts:
“(f) the candidates, their election agents and polling agents ;
(g) the President, the Governors and the Rajpramukh of the States.”
Dr. Ambedkar: Why does he want specifically reference to them ? They are voters.
Shri J. R. Kapoor: So far as amendment No. 396 is concerned, there are two parts which are intended to be inserted, parts (f) and (g). You may take them separately, because it is just possible that while the insertion of part (f) may be agreed to, perhaps part (g) may not be agreed to for reasons best known to the Hon. Law Minister.
*P.D., Vol. 12, Part II, 21st May 1951, p. 9202.
** Ibid, p. 9204.