640 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Clause 80
*Shri Hathi (Saurashtra) : Sub-clauses (a) and (b) deal with the category of persons who have to send the petition. Sub-clause (c) deals with the method. As it originally stood, the categories of persons and the methods were connected together. It is simply in order to separate the categories of persons and the method by which it is to be sent that this amendment seems to have been moved. The amendment does not in any way alter the substance. It is only a better way of expression.
Dr. Ambedkar: Yes, that is the same thing. I need not add anything more to what the hon. Member has said.
Shri Kamath : Shall we add ‘with acknowledgment due’ ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: We need not add it. All that is necessary is that it must be delivered to the other side. The question is:
For sub-clause (2) of clause 80, substitute the following sub-clause:
“(2) An election petition shall be deemed to have been presented to the Election Commission—
(a) when it is delivered to the Secretary to the Commission or to such other officer as may be appointed by the Election Commission in this behalf—
(i) by the person making the petition, or
(ii) by a person authorised in writing in this behalf by the person making the petition; or
(b) when it is sent by registered post and is delivered to the Secretary to the Commission or the officer so appointed.”
The motion was adopted.
** Mr. Deputy Speaker: I do not think it is necessary to labour the point. What has the Law Minister to say on the amendment ?
Dr. Ambedkar: I accept the amendment.
- P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 23rd May 1951, pp. 9280-81.
** Ibid., p, 9282.