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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The amendment was, by leave, withdrawn.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.