656 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Speaker: The House may adjourn now for the informal meeting which will take place, as I am told, in the council of State hall and immediately after we disperse from here.
Shri Kamath: Have you. Sir, any objection to our meeting in this Chamber which is cooler?
Mr. Speaker: The convention up to now has been that unless the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker or the Chairman is in the Chair, no meetings can take place in this House.
Dr. Ambedkar: It is a good ground for not meeting here.
The House then adjourned till half Past Eight of the Clock on Friday, the 25th May 1951.
*REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.— contd.
Mr. Speaker: The House will now resume discussion on the Representation of the People (No. 2) Bill. Clauses upto
130 were disposed of yesterday when the House adjourned for an informal discussion of the amendments tabled on the remaining clauses with the Hon. the Minister of Law. The House will now take up clause No. 131. I should like to know how the position stands today.
The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): We have finished the whole thing except one or two clauses, which I would request to be held over.
Mr. Speaker: Then I shall follow the same procedure. I shall call the particular clause and any hon. Member who wishes to move an amendment will kindly invite my attention to it.
Clause 131 was added to the Bill.
Clause 132. —( Penalty of illegal hiring )
Shri Bhatt (Bombay) : Further consideration of clause 132 may be postponed as it is related to clause 122. So long as clause 122 is not taken up this clause also may not be taken up.
*P. D., Vol. 12, Part II, 25th May 1951, pp. 9308-20.