726 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
these members were not such as to include profit or something more than actual expenses. On the view that we have taken that they are not office of profit, we do not think it desirable to enlarge the list by including in that category persons or officers to whom Mr. Sidhva refers in the amendment that he has given.
Pandit Kunzru: May I point out one thing—that is that the allowances which these members received exceeded the limit which I understand has now been fixed by the Finance Ministery.
Dr. Ambedkar: It might be so. But when the Bill says that according to it members of certain committees have incurred a disability and that disability shall be removed, the proper construction to put upon that clause would be that no other member of the Committee was disqualified and therefore, the Bill made no reference to it.
Then with regard to the general proposition which my friend Mr. Sidhva was enunciated in his second amendment...........
Pandit Kunzru : Will my hon. Friend kindly explain what are the special reasons that made the members of the committees referred to in the Bill liable to disqualification ?
Dr. Ambedkar: Because there is an element of profit in the payment that was made to them.
Pandit Kunzru: That is the allowance they received exceeded Rs. 20 ?
Dr. Ambedkar: We thought that there was a certain amount of doubt in their case and the Bill seeks to remove that doubt.
With regard to the general proposition which my friend Mr. Sidhva has enunciated, in amendment No. 2, that we should have a general rule and let the general rule apply so that there may be no more necessity for Bills of this kind. I think it is too tall an order for me to accept, for the simple reason that although for the monent and for the purposes of this Bill we have accepted a certain basis of remuneration—