PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 651
The House then adjourned till Half Past Eight of the Clock on Thursday, the 24th May, 1951.
*REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL— contd .
Mr. Speaker: The House will now proceed with the further discussion of the Representation of the People (No. 2) Bill. Clauses up to 93 were disposed of yesterday when
9-00 P.M. the House adjourned for an informal discussion of the amendments tabled on the remaining clauses with the Hon. Minister of Law. The House will now take up clause
- I should like to know what has been the result of the informal conference among Members.
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): Sir, we have gone quite a long way up to clause 135. But I would be still asking your permission and the permission of the House to adjourn at about 11, or half-past eleven, as it suits us, because I would like to have a meeting again to finish off the whole. The difficulty is that in the afternoon there is another meeting and it would not be possible for the Committee of the House to meet to discuss this matter. I hope you will grant me this indulgence.
Mr. Speaker: I am prepared even to rise earlier, provided we could finish this off.
Dr, Ambedkar: The trouble is this that every Member regards himself as a possible candidate when he is discussing this Bill and he sees all sorts of difficulties that may come in his way.
An hon. Member: Including the Minister.
Mr. Speaker: When he says every Member of course the Minister is included.
I shall follow the procedure which we followed yesterday. I shall first ask as to whether any amendments are going to be moved and if so to what clauses. There are no amendments to clauses 94 to 97.
*P.D., Vol. 12, Part II, 23rd May 1951, pp. 9296-9305.