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be entitled to get the second seat that has been reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
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Dr. Ambedkar: I am not prepared to accept this amendment.
Shri Sonavane: I beg for leave to withdraw my amendment.
The amendment was, by leave, withdrawn.
Shri J. R. Kapoor: I beg to move:
For sub-clause (2) of clause 62, substitute the following:
“(2) If an elector gives more than one vote to any one candidate in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (i) both the votes will be rejected.”
Dr. Ambedkar: This matter was considered at great length in the Select Committee.
Shri J. R. Kapoor: Many a thing was very seriously considered by the Select Committee. But you find what that careful consideration has come to when the report is scrutinised here.
I would therefore, like to argue it out.
Mr. Chairman: The hon. Member will do it tomorrow.
The House then adjourned till Half Past Eight of the Clock on Tuesday, the 22nd May, 1951.
Clause 62
*Mr. Speaker: Amendments moved:
(i) In sub-clause (1) of clause 62, for the words “but no elector shall give more than one vote to any one candidate”, substitute the following :
“and may give all those votes to one candidate or distribute between such candidates and in such a manner as he thinks fit”.
(ii) Omit sub-clause (2) of clause 62.
*P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 23rd May 1951, pp. 9248-49.